Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 18

Quicksand can trap your legs, but a person floats in it and does not sink over their head; you get free by moving slowly and leaning back.

Who acts: Quicksand, person, you · What happens: trap, float, not sink, get, move, lean back · To what, where: legs, water, head

This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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 (Quicksand, person, 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	Quicksand	quicksand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trap	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trap	aux
3	trap	trap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 legs	nmod:poss
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trap	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 floats	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 floats	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floats	nsubj
10	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trap	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 floats	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sink	cc
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sink	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 sink	advmod
16	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 floats	conj
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sink	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 get	nsubj
22	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trap	parataxis
23	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 get	xcomp
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 moving	mark
25	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 free	advcl
26	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	25 moving	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 leaning	cc
28	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 moving	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 leaning	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trap	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trap	can	Quicksand	your legs			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	float	present	a person		water		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory
3	not sink	present · do-support	a person not said here		quicksand's head		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	get	present	you			free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	move	gerund	you not said here			slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	lean back	gerund	you not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:18.

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 ×1, 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.

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