Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 12
Someone who is drowning often cannot shout or wave, so drowning can be very quiet.
Who acts: Someone, drowning · What happens: drown, not shout, wave, be
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 (Someone, drowning), 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 shout | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 drowning | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drowning | aux |
| 4 | drowning | drown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Someone | acl:relcl |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 shout | advmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 shout | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 shout | advmod |
| 8 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 wave | cc |
| 10 | wave | wave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 shout | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 quiet | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 quiet | advmod |
| 13 | drowning | drown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quiet | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 quiet | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 quiet | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 quiet | advmod |
| 17 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shout | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shout | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | present · progressive | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not shout speech: express | can | Someone | often property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wave | infinitive | Someone not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | can | drowning | quiet property | tree rules |
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:12.
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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