Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries, sentence 14

People who jump in to rescue someone often drown themselves; the RLSS advice is Call 999, Tell them to float, Throw something that floats.

Who acts: People, RLSS advice · What happens: jump in, rescue, drown, be, tell, float · To what, where: someone, people, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» of the medicine 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 (People, RLSS advice), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 jump	nsubj
3	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 People	acl:relcl
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 jump	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rescue	mark
6	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 jump	advcl
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 rescue	obj
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 drown	advmod
9	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 someone	acl:relcl
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 drown	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 Tell	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 advice	det
13	RLSS	RLSS	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 advice	compound
14	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Call	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Call	cop
16	Call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 People	parataxis
17	999	999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 Call	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Tell	punct
19	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 People	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 Tell	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 float	mark
22	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Tell	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Throw	punct
24	Throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Tell	conj
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 Throw	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 floats	nsubj
27	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 something	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 People	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	jump in	present	People				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rescue	to-infinitive	People not said here	someone			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
3	drown	infinitive		people		often property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
4	is	present	the RLSS advice			call property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive			people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	float not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	throw	infinitive		something			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
8	float	present					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:medicine:071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.lesson:14.

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): R6-punct-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.

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