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title: She waits, because most child drownings happen in home pools when no… — Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and ra… · tree and pragmatics
description: She waits, because most child drownings happen in home pools when no one is watching, and drowning is quick and quiet. Who acts: girl, most child drownings, one, drowning. A sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» of the everyday course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows, sentence 8

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She waits, because most child drownings happen in home pools when no one is watching, and drowning is quick and quiet.

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**Who acts:** girl, most child drownings, one, drowning · **What happens:** wait, happen, watch, be · **To what, where:** home pools

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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, most child drownings, one, drowning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:8
# text = She waits, because most child drownings happen in home pools when no one is watching, and drowning is quick and quiet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	drownings	drowning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	drowning	drown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **wait** | present | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | present | most child drownings |  |  | home pools |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pool=Location |
| 3 | **watch** | present · progressive | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | drowning |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | drowning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:8`.

**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): R8-pos-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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