--- title: A boy in New Zealand took a dare to hold his breath underwater as lo… — Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in New Zealand took a dare to hold his breath underwater as long as he could; he blacked out and a lifeguard had to pull him out. Who acts: boy, lifeguard. 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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 (boy, lifeguard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:18 # text = A boy in New Zealand took a dare to hold his breath underwater as long as he could; he blacked out and a lifeguard had to pull him out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.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 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP _ 5 flat _ _ 5 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 dare dare NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 underwater underwater ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 as as ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 blacked black VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lifeguard lifeguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | a boy in New Zealand | a dare | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dare=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | a boy in New Zealand *not said here* | boy's breath | | | | long, underwater *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 3 | **black out** | past | boy | | | | | | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **have** | past | a lifeguard | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pull out** | to-infinitive | a lifeguard *not said here* | lifeguard | | | | | tree rules | 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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Peer pressure, happy secrets and being…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted/17/) - next →: [Peer pressure, happy secrets and being…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted/)