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title: Holding your breath underwater too long can make you black out witho… — Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted · tree and pragmatics
description: Holding your breath underwater too long can make you black out without warning, and many people drown that way. Who acts: Holding, you, many people. A sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 20

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Holding your breath underwater too long can make you black out without warning, and many people drown that way.

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**Who acts:** Holding, you, many people · **What happens:** hold, make, black out, drown · **To what, where:** breath, you, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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 (Holding, you, many people), 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:20
# text = Holding your breath underwater too long can make you black out without warning, and many people drown that way.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:poss
3	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound
4	underwater	underwater	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	black	black	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	drown	drown	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **hold** | gerund |  | your breath |  |  |  | long, underwater *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | can | Holding | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **black out** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without warning | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **drown** | present | many people | that way |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:20`.

**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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