Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 20
Drowning is quick and silent, and it can happen in less than a minute.
Who acts: Drowning, it · What happens: be, happen
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 (Drowning, it), 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 | Drowning | drowning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quick | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quick | cop |
| 3 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 silent | cc |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quick | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 happen | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 happen | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 happen | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 happen | aux |
| 10 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quick | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 minute | case |
| 12 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 15 minute | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 less | fixed |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minute | det |
| 15 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happen | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Drowning | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Drowning not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | happen | can | it | minute | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:007-swimming-and-water.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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