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title: A small child can drown in under a minute, quietly, without splashin… — Being trusted and what to do with things you find · tree and pragmatics
description: A small child can drown in under a minute, quietly, without splashing or shouting. Who acts: small child. A sentence of the lesson «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Being trusted and what to do with things you find, sentence 26

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A small child can drown in under a minute, quietly, without splashing or shouting.

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**Who acts:** small child · **What happens:** drown, splash, shout

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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 (small child), 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:26
# text = A small child can drown in under a minute, quietly, without splashing or shouting.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	splashing	splash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **drown** | can | a small child |  |  |  | minute | quietly *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **splash** | gerund | a small child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | a small child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.lesson:26`.

**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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