Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows, sentence 8
She waits, because most child drownings happen in home pools when no one is watching, and drowning is quick and quiet.
Who acts: girl, most child drownings, one, drowning · What happens: wait, happen, watch, be · To what, where: home pools
This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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 (girl, most child drownings, one, drowning), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waits | nsubj |
| 2 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 happen | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 happen | mark |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 drownings | amod |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drownings | compound |
| 7 | drownings | drowning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 happen | nsubj |
| 8 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 waits | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pools | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pools | compound |
| 11 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 happen | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 watching | advmod |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watching | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 watching | aux |
| 16 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 happen | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 quick | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 quick | cc |
| 19 | drowning | drown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 quick | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 quick | cop |
| 21 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 waits | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 quiet | cc |
| 23 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 quick | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | girl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen | present | most child drownings | home pools | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pool=Location | ||||
| 3 | watch | present · progressive | no one | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | drowning | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | drowning not said here | tree rules |
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:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:8.
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): R8-pos-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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