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title: A toddler in California slipped through an open pool gate while the… — The sea, waves and swimming pools · tree and pragmatics
description: A toddler in California slipped through an open pool gate while the grown-ups were chatting; she was found in the water just in time and needed hospital care. Who acts: toddler, grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wi
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# The sea, waves and swimming pools, sentence 22

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A toddler in California slipped through an open pool gate while the grown-ups were chatting; she was found in the water just in time and needed hospital care.

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**Who acts:** toddler, grown ups · **What happens:** slip, grow, chat, find, need · **To what, where:** open pool gate, up, water, hospital care

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» 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 (toddler, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:233-sea-and-pools.lesson:22
# text = A toddler in California slipped through an open pool gate while the grown-ups were chatting; she was found in the water just in time and needed hospital care.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 233-sea-and-pools.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	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	chatting	chat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | past | a toddler in California |  |  | a open pool gate |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **chat** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the grown ups |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past · passive |  | up |  | the water | time |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **need** | past |  | hospital care |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme |

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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:233-sea-and-pools.lesson:22`.

**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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