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title: Drowning is quick and silent: a drowning child often cannot shout or… — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics
description: Drowning is quick and silent: a drowning child often cannot shout or wave. Who acts: Drowning, drowning child. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 24

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Drowning is quick and silent: a drowning child often cannot shout or wave.

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**Who acts:** Drowning, drowning child · **What happens:** be, drown, not shout, wave

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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 (Drowning, drowning child), 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:24
# text = Drowning is quick and silent: a drowning child often cannot shout or wave.
# 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): no change
1	Drowning	drown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wave	wave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Drowning |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Drowning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drown** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **shout** *speech: express* | can | a drowning child |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wave** | infinitive | a drowning child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:24`.

**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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