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title: A girl in Florida was left to watch her little brother by the pool a… — Being trusted and what to do with things you find · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Florida was left to watch her little brother by the pool and went inside for a minute to get a drink; he slipped in, and only her mum's quick swim saved him. Who acts: girl, fairness, quick swim, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» of the every
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# Being trusted and what to do with things you find, sentence 24

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A girl in Florida was left to watch her little brother by the pool and went inside for a minute to get a drink; he slipped in, and only her mum's quick swim saved him.

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**Who acts:** girl, fairness, quick swim, mum · **What happens:** leave, watch, go, get, slip in, save · **To what, where:** girl, little brother, drink, fairness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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, fairness, quick swim, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.lesson:24
# text = A girl in Florida was left to watch her little brother by the pool and went inside for a minute to get a drink; he slipped in, and only her mum's quick swim saved him.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
17	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
28	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	swim	swim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **leave** | past · passive |  | a girl in Florida |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | to-infinitive | a girl in Florida *not said here* | girl's little brother |  |  |  | by the pool | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  | minute | inside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | a drink |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drink=Stimulus |
| 5 | **slip in** | past | fairness |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **save** | past | girl's mum's quick swim | fairness |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **swim** |  | girl's mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom swim «act transitive»: poss=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:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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