Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 8
Floating on your back lets you rest and breathe while using little energy.
Who acts: Floating, you · What happens: float, let, rest, breathe, use · To what, where: back, little energy
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 (Floating, you), 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 | 5 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 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 rest | nsubj |
| 7 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lets | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 breathe | cc |
| 9 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rest | conj |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 using | mark |
| 11 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 breathe | advcl |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 energy | amod |
| 13 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 using | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | let | present | Floating | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rest | infinitive | you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | breathe | infinitive | you not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | use | gerund | you not said here | little energy | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |
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:8.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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