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title: A mum in England left her toddler in the bath for a moment to answer… — Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mum in England left her toddler in the bath for a moment to answer the door; when she came back he was face-down in the water, and only her fast first aid saved him. Who acts: mum, toddler, fast first aid. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» of the ever
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# Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food, sentence 19

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A mum in England left her toddler in the bath for a moment to answer the door; when she came back he was face-down in the water, and only her fast first aid saved him.

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**Who acts:** mum, toddler, fast first aid · **What happens:** leave, answer, come back, be, save · **To what, where:** toddler, bath, door, down, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» 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 (mum, toddler, fast first aid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:19
# text = A mum in England left her toddler in the bath for a moment to answer the door; when she came back he was face-down in the water, and only her fast first aid saved him.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
35	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	37	amod	_	_
37	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	.	.	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 | **leave** | past | a mum in England | mum's toddler |  | the bath | moment |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toddler=Theme in bath=Location |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a mum in England *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come back** | past | mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | toddler | down |  | the water |  | face *obl* | tree rules |
| 5 | **save** | past | mum's fast first aid | toddler |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:19`.

**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 ×3, 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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