Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food, sentence 19
A mum in England left her toddler in the bath for a moment to answer the door; when she came back he was face-down in the water, and only her fast first aid saved him.
Who acts: mum, toddler, fast first aid · What happens: leave, answer, come back, be, save · To what, where: toddler, bath, door, down, water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mum, toddler, fast first aid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mum | det |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 England | case |
| 4 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mum | nmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 toddler | nmod:poss |
| 7 | toddler | toddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bath | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bath | det |
| 10 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 answer | mark |
| 15 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 left | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answer | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 came | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 down | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 down | cop |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 down | obl |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 face | punct |
| 27 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 water | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 down | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 saved | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 saved | cc |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 37 aid | advmod |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 aid | nmod:poss |
| 35 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 aid | amod |
| 36 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 aid | amod |
| 37 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 saved | nsubj |
| 38 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 saved | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | a mum in England | mum's toddler | the bath | moment | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toddler=Theme in bath=Location | ||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | a mum in England not said here | the door | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | mum | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | toddler | down | the water | face obl | tree rules | ||
| 5 | save | past | mum's fast first aid | toddler | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:19.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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