Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat, sentence 18

Small boats tip over easily if someone stands up or lunges to one side, as the Mole did when he grabbed the sculls; you step into the middle, keep low, sit still and wear a life jacket.

Who acts: Small boats, someone, Mole, you · What happens: tip over, stand up, lunge, do, grab, step · To what, where: sculls, middle, life jacket

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat» 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 (Small boats, someone, Mole, 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boats	amod
2	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tip	nsubj
3	tip	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 tip	advmod
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 tip	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stands	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 stands	nsubj
8	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tip	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 stands	compound:prt
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 lunges	cc
11	lunges	lunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stands	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 side	nummod
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lunges	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 did	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 did	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Mole	det
18	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lunges	parataxis
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 grabbed	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 grabbed	nsubj
22	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 did	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sculls	det
24	sculls	scull	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 grabbed	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 step	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 step	nsubj
27	step	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tip	parataxis
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 middle	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 middle	det
30	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 step	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 keep	punct
32	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 step	conj
33	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 keep	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sit	punct
35	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 keep	xcomp
36	still	still	ADV	_	35 sit	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wear	cc
38	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 sit	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 jacket	det
40	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 jacket	compound
41	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wear	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tip	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip over	present	Small boats				easily, over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stand up a condition, not said to happen	present	someone					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lunge	present	someone not said here				to one side	tree rules
4	do	past	the Mole					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	grab	past	Mole	the sculls				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scull=Theme
6	step	present	you		the middle			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into middle=Destination
7	keep	infinitive	you not said here				low property	tree rules
8	sit	infinitive	you not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	wear	infinitive	you not said here	a life jacket				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=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:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:18.

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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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