Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 5
A boy of nine swam out past the flags at Bondi; the rip pulled him out and the lifeguards could not reach him in time.
Who acts: boy, rip, lifeguards · What happens: swim out, pull out, not reach · To what, where: flags, boy
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 (boy, rip, lifeguards), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 nine | case |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 swam | advmod |
| 7 | past | past | ADP | _ | 9 flags | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flags | det |
| 9 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swam | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Bondi | case |
| 11 | Bondi | Bondi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 flags | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 pulled | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rip | det |
| 14 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pulled | nsubj |
| 15 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swam | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pulled | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 pulled | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 reach | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lifeguards | det |
| 20 | lifeguards | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reach | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 reach | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 reach | advmod |
| 23 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pulled | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reach | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reach | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim out | past | a boy of nine | the flags at Bondi | out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past flag=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | pull out | past | the rip | boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not reach | could | the lifeguards | boy | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=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:5.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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