Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 11

People in small boats trying to reach safety in another country are sometimes drowned; rescuers save many, but not always all.

Who acts: small boats, rescuers · What happens: try, reach, drown, save · To what, where: safety, country, People, many

This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics 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 (small boats, rescuers), 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	14 drowned	nsubj:pass
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 boats	case
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boats	amod
4	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 People	nmod
5	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 boats	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 reach	mark
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
8	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reach	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 safety	nmod
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 drowned	aux:pass
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 drowned	advmod
14	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 rescuers	punct
16	rescuers	rescuer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 save	nsubj
17	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 drowned	parataxis
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 save	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 all	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 all	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 all	advmod
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 all	advmod
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 many	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 drowned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	gerund	small boats not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	reach not said to happen	to-infinitive	small boats not said here	safety	another country		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent safety=Theme
3	drown	present · passive		People in small boats		sometimes property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	save	present	rescuers	many			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:11.

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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