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title: A small child can drown in a few centimetres of water in seconds, so… — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics
description: A small child can drown in a few centimetres of water in seconds, so a little brother or sister is never left alone in the bath: you call an adult. Who acts: small child, you. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 2

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A small child can drown in a few centimetres of water in seconds, so a little brother or sister is never left alone in the bath: you call an adult.

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**Who acts:** small child, you · **What happens:** drown, not leave, call · **To what, where:** few centimetres, little brother, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday 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 child, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:2
# text = A small child can drown in a few centimetres of water in seconds, so a little brother or sister is never left alone in the bath: you call an adult.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
24	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | can | a small child |  |  | a few centimetres of water | second |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | present · passive |  | a little brother or sister |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present | you |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:2`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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