Pools, lakes and ice, sentence 0

Drowning is usually quick and silent: a child in trouble often cannot shout or wave, so someone must be watching swimmers all the time, even in a small pool.

Who acts: child, someone · What happens: drown, be, not shout, wave, watch · To what, where: swimmers, small pool

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pools, lakes and ice» 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 (child, someone), 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	Drowning	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 quick	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quick	cop
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 quick	advmod
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 silent	cc
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quick	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 shout	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shout	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 trouble	case
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 child	nmod
12	often	often	ADV	_	15 shout	advmod
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 shout	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 shout	advmod
15	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 quick	parataxis
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 wave	cc
17	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 shout	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 watching	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 watching	advmod
20	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 watching	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 watching	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 watching	aux
23	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 wave	advcl
24	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 watching	obj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 time	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 watching	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pool	punct
29	even	even	ADV	_	33 pool	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 pool	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 pool	det
32	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 pool	amod
33	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 watching	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	gerund						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present					quick, usually property	tree rules
3	be							tree rules
4	not shout speech: express	can	a child in trouble				often property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wave	infinitive	a child in trouble not said here					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	watch	must · progressive	someone	swimmers	a small pool	time		vn assessment-34.1 «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:045-pools-lakes-and-ice.lesson:0.

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): 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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