Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 1
Floating on your back with your arms and legs spread, ears in the water and tummy up, lets you rest and breathe without using much energy, so it is the first thing to do if you get tired or scared.
Who acts: arms, Floating, you, water · What happens: float, spread, let, rest, breathe, use · To what, where: back, you, much energy, first thing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming basics and water confidence» 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 (arms, Floating, you, water), 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 | Floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 lets | csubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 back | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 back | nmod:poss |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Floating | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 spread | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spread | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 legs | cc |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arms | conj |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Floating | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ears | punct |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spread | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ears | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tummy | cc |
| 17 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 ears | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lets | punct |
| 20 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 lets | obj |
| 22 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lets | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 breathe | cc |
| 24 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 rest | conj |
| 25 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 26 using | mark |
| 26 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 breathe | advcl |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 energy | amod |
| 28 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 using | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 thing | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 thing | advmod |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 thing | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 thing | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 thing | det |
| 34 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 thing | amod |
| 35 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lets | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 do | mark |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 thing | acl |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 get | mark |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 get | nsubj |
| 40 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 do | advcl |
| 41 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 get | xcomp |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 scared | cc |
| 43 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 tired | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 lets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | gerund | your back | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | spread | participle | your arms and legs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let | present | Floating | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rest | infinitive | you not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | breathe | infinitive | you not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | use | gerund | you not said here | much energy | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | water | the first thing | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | do | to-infinitive | Floating not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | you | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:007-swimming-and-water.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): 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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