Water safety and the ocean, sentence 3
Knowing how water behaves keeps people safe: thin ice, rip currents and a person quietly struggling in the water are real dangers, and the safe move is always to call an adult or a lifeguard.
Who acts: water, Knowing, person, rip currents, safe move · What happens: know, behave, keep, struggle, be · To what, where: people, water, real dangers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (water, Knowing, person, rip currents), 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 | Knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 keeps | csubj |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 behaves | advmod |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 behaves | nsubj |
| 4 | behaves | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Knowing | ccomp |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keeps | obj |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keeps | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
| 9 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ice | amod |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 currents | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 currents | punct |
| 12 | rip | rip | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 currents | amod |
| 13 | currents | current | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 dangers | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 person | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 currents | conj |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 18 struggling | advmod |
| 18 | struggling | struggle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 person | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 struggling | obl |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dangers | cop |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dangers | amod |
| 24 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keeps | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dangers | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 call | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 move | det |
| 28 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 move | amod |
| 29 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 call | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 call | cop |
| 31 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 call | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 call | mark |
| 33 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 dangers | conj |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 adult | det |
| 35 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 call | obj |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 lifeguard | cc |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 lifeguard | det |
| 38 | lifeguard | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 adult | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | behave | present | water | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | present | Knowing | people | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 4 | struggle | gerund | a person not said here | the water | quietly property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is a | present | rip currents and thin ice and a person | real dangers | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the safe move | always, call property | 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:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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