Facing fears, sentence 11
Courage in the water grows by small steps with a teacher, and you only swim where an adult is watching.
Who acts: Courage, you, adult · What happens: grow, swim, watch
This is a sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» 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 (Courage, you, adult), 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 | Courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Courage | nmod |
| 5 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 steps | case |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 steps | amod |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grows | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 teacher | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 teacher | det |
| 11 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steps | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swim | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swim | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 swim | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 swim | advmod |
| 16 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grows | conj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 watching | advmod |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 adult | det |
| 19 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 watching | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 watching | aux |
| 21 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 swim | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Courage in the water | by small steps with a teacher | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by step=Location | ||||
| 2 | swim | present | you | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch | present · progressive | a adult | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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:090-facing-fears.lesson:11.
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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