Facing fears, sentence 3

A girl in Toronto is scared of the deep end; she learns with a swimming teacher, a little deeper each week, and by the summer she jumps in with a smile while the lifeguard watches.

Who acts: girl, lifeguard · What happens: be, learn, jump in, 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 (girl, lifeguard), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Toronto	case
4	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 end	amod
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 learns	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 learns	nsubj
13	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	parataxis
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 teacher	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 teacher	det
16	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 teacher	compound
17	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 learns	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 deeper	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 little	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 deeper	obl
21	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 learns	conj
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 week	det
23	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 deeper	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 jumps	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 jumps	cc
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 summer	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 summer	det
28	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 jumps	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 jumps	nsubj
30	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	conj
31	in	in	ADV	_	30 jumps	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 smile	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 smile	det
34	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 jumps	obl
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 watches	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lifeguard	det
37	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 watches	nsubj
38	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 jumps	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a girl in Toronto	of the deep end	scared property	tree rules
2	learn	present	girl		with a swimming teacher	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	jump in	present	girl	summer	with a smile	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	watch	present	the lifeguard			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:3.

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 ×3. 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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