Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 21
Seconds matter in a water emergency, so watching closely and acting fast saves lives.
Who acts: Seconds, watching · What happens: matter, watch, act, save · To what, where: water emergency, lives
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 (Seconds, watching), 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 | Seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 emergency | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 emergency | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 emergency | compound |
| 6 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 matter | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saves | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 saves | advmod |
| 9 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 saves | csubj |
| 10 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 9 watching | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 acting | cc |
| 12 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 watching | conj |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 12 acting | advmod |
| 14 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 matter | parataxis |
| 15 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saves | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | Seconds | a water emergency | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | closely property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | act | gerund | fast property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | save | present | watching | lives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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:21.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/21/