Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 18

A boy in New Zealand took a dare to hold his breath underwater as long as he could; he blacked out and a lifeguard had to pull him out.

Who acts: boy, lifeguard · What happens: take, hold, black out, have, pull out · To what, where: dare, breath, lifeguard

This is a sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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 (boy, lifeguard), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Zealand	case
4	New	New	PROPN	_	5 Zealand	flat
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dare	det
8	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hold	mark
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dare	acl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 breath	nmod:poss
12	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	obj
13	underwater	underwater	ADV	_	10 hold	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 hold	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 could	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 could	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 long	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 blacked	nsubj
21	blacked	black	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 blacked	compound:prt
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lifeguard	det
25	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 blacked	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 pull	mark
28	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pull	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	28 pull	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	a boy in New Zealand	a dare		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dare=Theme
2	hold	to-infinitive	a boy in New Zealand not said here	boy's breath	long, underwater property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
3	black out	past	boy			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	a lifeguard			tree rules
5	pull out	to-infinitive	a lifeguard not said here	lifeguard		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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:18.

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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