Tenses: past, present and future, sentence 3

"I was swimming when the lifeguard blew the whistle" mixes a long action going on (was swimming) with a short one that cut in (blew).

Who acts: I, lifeguard, long action, short one · What happens: swim, blow, mix, go on, cut in, blew · To what, where: whistle, long action

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tenses: past, present and future» of the language 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 (I, lifeguard, long action, short one), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 swimming	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 swimming	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swimming	aux
4	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 blew	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lifeguard	det
7	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blew	nsubj
8	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swimming	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 whistle	det
10	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blew	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 mixes	punct
12	mixes	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 swimming	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 action	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 action	amod
15	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mixes	obj
16	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 action	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	16 going	compound:prt
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 swimming	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 swimming	aux
20	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 going	parataxis
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 swimming	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 one	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mixes	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 cut	nsubj
27	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 one	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	27 cut	compound:prt
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 blew	punct
30	blew	blew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cut	parataxis
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 blew	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swimming	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swim in a quote	past · progressive	I			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow in a quote	past	the lifeguard	the whistle		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
3	mix	present	I not said here	a long action	with a short one	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent action=Patient with one=Co-Patient
4	go on	gerund	a long action not said here			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	swim	past · progressive				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cut in	past	a short one			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	blew	past				tree rules

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:language:008-tenses-past-present-future.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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