Going where you're not allowed, sentence 12
The flags mark the safest water the lifeguards are watching; outside them there may be rip currents that pull swimmers out to sea.
Who acts: flags, lifeguards, rip currents · What happens: mark, watch, be, pull · To what, where: safest water, swimmers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Going where you're not allowed» 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 (flags, lifeguards, rip currents), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flags | det |
| 2 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mark | nsubj |
| 3 | mark | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 5 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 water | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mark | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lifeguards | det |
| 8 | lifeguards | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 watching | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 watching | aux |
| 10 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 water | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 them | punct |
| 12 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 be | obl |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | _ | 16 be | expl |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 be | aux |
| 16 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mark | parataxis |
| 17 | rip | rip | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 currents | amod |
| 18 | currents | current | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 be | nsubj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 pull | nsubj |
| 20 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 currents | acl:relcl |
| 21 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pull | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 pull | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 out | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mark | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present | the flags | the safest water | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Destination | ||||
| 2 | watch | present · progressive | the lifeguards | the safest water not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | may | rip currents | there | outside flags = flag | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside they=Location | |||
| 4 | pull | present | rip currents | swimmers | out property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=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:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.lesson:12.
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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