Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 20

Many people who drown are trying to save someone else; a panicking person in the water can grab a rescuer and pull them under.

Who acts: Many people, panicking person · What happens: drown, try, save, panicking, grab, pull under · To what, where: someone, rescuer, people

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 (Many people, panicking person), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trying	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 drown	nsubj
4	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 people	acl:relcl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trying	aux
6	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 save	mark
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trying	xcomp
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 save	obj
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 someone	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 grab	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 person	det
13	panicking	panicking	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 person	amod
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grab	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 person	nmod
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 grab	aux
19	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trying	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rescuer	det
21	rescuer	rescuer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grab	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pull	cc
23	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 grab	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pull	obj
25	under	under	ADP	_	23 pull	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	drown	present	Many people		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	try	present · progressive	Many people		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	Many people not said here	someone	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
4	panicking	gerund			tree rules
5	grab	can	a panicking person in the water	a rescuer	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rescuer=Theme
6	pull under	infinitive	a panicking person in the water not said here	people	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: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): 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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