Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food, sentence 9
Small children can drown in a few centimetres of water in a few seconds.
Who acts: Small children · What happens: drown · To what, where: few centimetres
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 (Small children), 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drown | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 drown | aux |
| 4 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 centimetres | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 centimetres | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 centimetres | amod |
| 8 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drown | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 centimetres | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 seconds | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 seconds | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seconds | amod |
| 14 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drown | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drown | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | can | Small children | a few centimetres of water | second | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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): no change. 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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