Water safety and the ocean, sentence 10

A person drowning often cannot wave or shout; they bob, gasping, with the head tilted back, because all their effort goes into breathing.

Who acts: person, fish, head, effort · What happens: drown, not wave, shout, bob, gasp, tilt back · To what, where: breathing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics 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 (person, fish, head, effort), 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 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wave	nsubj
3	drowning	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 person	acl
4	often	often	ADV	_	3 drowning	advmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wave	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 wave	advmod
7	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 shout	cc
9	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wave	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 bob	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bob	nsubj
12	bob	bob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wave	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gasping	punct
14	gasping	gasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 bob	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tilted	punct
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 tilted	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 head	det
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tilted	nsubj
19	tilted	tilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wave	advcl
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 tilted	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 goes	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 goes	mark
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 effort	det:predet
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 effort	nmod:poss
25	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 goes	nsubj
26	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bob	advcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 breathing	case
28	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 goes	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wave	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	drown	gerund	a person not said here		often property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not wave	can	a person			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shout speech: express	infinitive	a person not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bob	present	fish			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	gasp	gerund	fish not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tilt back	participle	the head			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go	present	fish's effort	breathing		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into breathing=Initial_Location

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:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:10.

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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