Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 9

Lake-monster stories are often told to keep children away from water, and deep water really is dangerous: it can be cold, deep and full of weeds, so never swim without an adult.

Who acts: monster stories, deep water, water · What happens: tell, keep away, be, not swim · To what, where: monster stories, children, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» 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 (monster stories, deep water, water), 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	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 monster	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Lake	punct
3	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stories	compound
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 keep	mark
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	xcomp
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	obj
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 keep	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 water	case
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dangerous	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dangerous	cc
16	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dangerous	nsubj
18	really	really	ADV	_	20 dangerous	advmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dangerous	cop
20	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 told	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 cold	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cold	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 cold	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 cold	cop
25	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dangerous	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 deep	punct
27	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cold	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 full	cc
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cold	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 weeds	case
31	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 full	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 swim	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 swim	advmod
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 swim	advmod
35	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dangerous	conj
36	without	without	ADP	_	38 adult	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 adult	det
38	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 swim	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		monster stories			often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep away not said to happen	to-infinitive	monster stories not said here		children	water	away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer child=Beneficiary from water=Eventuality
3	is	present	deep water				dangerous property	tree rules
4	is	can	water				cold property	tree rules
5	be		water not said here					tree rules
6	be		water not said here				of weeds	tree rules
7	not swim	infinitive	deep water not said here				without a adult	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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:myths:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:9.

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. 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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