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title: A girl in Michigan swam out to a raft in a lake; halfway she got tir… — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Michigan swam out to a raft in a lake; halfway she got tired and cold and went under, and a man in a boat pulled her out just in time. Who acts: girl, man. A sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 23

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A girl in Michigan swam out to a raft in a lake; halfway she got tired and cold and went under, and a man in a boat pulled her out just in time.

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**Who acts:** girl, man · **What happens:** swim out, get, go, pull out · **To what, where:** raft, girl

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» 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 (girl, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:23
# text = A girl in Michigan swam out to a raft in a lake; halfway she got tired and cold and went under, and a man in a boat pulled her out just in time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 232-lakes-and-beaches.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Michigan	Michigan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	under	under	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim out** | past | a girl in Michigan |  |  | a raft in a lake |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to raft=Destination |
| 2 | **get** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | halfway, tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | under *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pull out** | past | a man in a boat | girl |  |  | time |  | tree rules |

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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:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:23`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

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

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