Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 1
A rip is usually narrow, often only a few house-widths wide, so swimming sideways for a short way gets you out of it, while swimming straight against it can be like running the wrong way on a moving walkway.
Who acts: rip, swimming · What happens: be, swim, get, move · To what, where: you, rip, moving walkway
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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 (rip, swimming), 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 rip | det |
| 2 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 narrow | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 narrow | cop |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 narrow | advmod |
| 5 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 widths | punct |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 widths | advmod |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 widths | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 widths | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 widths | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 widths | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 house | punct |
| 13 | widths | width | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 narrow | obl |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 13 widths | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swimming | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 gets | advmod |
| 17 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 gets | csubj |
| 18 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 17 swimming | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swimming | obl |
| 23 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 narrow | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 gets | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gets | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 swimming | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 37 running | mark |
| 30 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 running | nsubj |
| 31 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 30 swimming | advmod |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 swimming | obl |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 running | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 running | cop |
| 36 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 37 running | mark |
| 37 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 narrow | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 way | det |
| 39 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 way | amod |
| 40 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 running | obj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 walkway | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 walkway | det |
| 43 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 walkway | amod |
| 44 | walkway | walkway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 running | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 narrow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a rip | a few house widths obl; narrow, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | for a short way; sideways property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | present | swimming | you | rip | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | swim | gerund | rip | straight property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against it=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | is | can | a moving walkway | run property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:1.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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