Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 6
A father in Ireland jumped into a river to save his son's dog; the cold water and current were too strong for him, and both had to be rescued by firefighters.
Who acts: father, cold water, both, firefighters · What happens: jump, save, be, have, rescue · To what, where: river, dog
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 (father, cold water, both, firefighters), 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 father | nmod |
| 5 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumped | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 save | mark |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 jumped | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dog | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 son | case |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 strong | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 17 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 strong | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 current | cc |
| 20 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 water | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 strong | cop |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 strong | advmod |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 jumped | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 strong | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 had | cc |
| 28 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 jumped | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 rescued | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 rescued | aux:pass |
| 32 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 had | xcomp |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 firefighters | case |
| 34 | firefighters | firefighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rescued | obl:agent |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | a father in Ireland | into a river result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into river=Result | ||||
| 2 | save | to-infinitive | a father in Ireland not said here | father's son's dog | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the cold water and current | for father; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | both | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | rescue | to-infinitive · passive | firefighters | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:6.
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, R8-pos-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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