--- title: Little children can drown in seconds in very shallow water, so watch… — Younger children, losing and practising · tree and pragmatics description: Little children can drown in seconds in very shallow water, so watching them means eyes on them all the time. Who acts: Little children, watching. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little children, watching), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:18 # text = Little children can drown in seconds in very shallow water, so watching them means eyes on them all the time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 drown drown VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drown** | can | Little children | | | shallow water | second | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **watch** | gerund | | children *= child* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | watching | eyes | | | time | on children *= child* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic | 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](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:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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