Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 20
Holding your breath underwater too long can make you black out without warning, and many people drown that way.
Who acts: Holding, you, many people · What happens: hold, make, black out, drown · To what, where: breath, you, way
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 (Holding, you, many people), 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 | Holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 make | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 breath | nmod:poss |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Holding | obj |
| 4 | underwater | underwater | ADV | _ | 1 Holding | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Holding | advmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | black | black | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 black | compound:prt |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 warning | case |
| 13 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 black | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drown | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drown | cc |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 drown | nsubj |
| 18 | drown | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | conj |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drown | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | your breath | long, underwater property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | can | Holding | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | black out | infinitive | you not said here | without warning | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | drown | present | many people | that way | 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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:20.
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 ×2, 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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