Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 13
A lifejacket's foam or gas-filled bag keeps your head above water; wear one on boats, and if you fall into cold water, float on your back, keep calm and wave or shout for help.
Who acts: foam, you · What happens: fill, keep, wear, fall, float, wave · To what, where: head, water, one, boats, cold water, back
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology 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 (foam, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lifejacket | det |
| 2 | lifejacket | lifejacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bag | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 lifejacket | case |
| 4 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 bag | cc |
| 6 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 gas | punct |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bag | amod |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 foam | conj |
| 10 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keeps | obj |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keeps | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 wear | punct |
| 16 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 keeps | parataxis |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 wear | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 boats | case |
| 19 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wear | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 float | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 float | cc |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 fall | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 fall | nsubj |
| 24 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 float | advcl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 water | amod |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fall | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fall | punct |
| 29 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 keeps | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 back | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 back | nmod:poss |
| 32 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 float | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 keep | punct |
| 34 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 keeps | parataxis |
| 35 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 keep | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 wave | cc |
| 37 | wave | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 keep | conj |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 shout | cc |
| 39 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 wave | conj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 help | case |
| 41 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shout | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | keep | present | foam or a lifejacket's filled bag | your head | water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Theme above water=Location | |||
| 3 | wear | infinitive | one | boats | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source | ||||
| 4 | fall a condition, not said to happen | present | you | into cold water result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | ||||
| 5 | float | infinitive | foam or a lifejacket's filled bag not said here | your back | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | keep | infinitive | calm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | wave | infinitive | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | shout speech: express | infinitive | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
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:technology:024-ships-ports-and-submarines.lesson:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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