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title: Drowning is usually quick and silent: a child in trouble often canno… — Pools, lakes and ice · tree and pragmatics
description: Drowning is usually quick and silent: a child in trouble often cannot shout or wave, so someone must be watching swimmers all the time, even in a small pool. Who acts: child, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Pools, lakes and ice» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Pools, lakes and ice, sentence 0

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Drowning is usually quick and silent: a child in trouble often cannot shout or wave, so someone must be watching swimmers all the time, even in a small pool.

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**Who acts:** child, someone · **What happens:** drown, be, not shout, wave, watch · **To what, where:** swimmers, small pool

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pools, lakes and ice» 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 (child, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:045-pools-lakes-and-ice.lesson:0
# text = Drowning is usually quick and silent: a child in trouble often cannot shout or wave, so someone must be watching swimmers all the time, even in a small pool.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 045-pools-lakes-and-ice.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wave	wave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | quick, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **shout** *speech: express* | can | a child in trouble |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wave** | infinitive | a child in trouble *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **watch** | must · progressive | someone | swimmers |  | a small pool | time |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=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:045-pools-lakes-and-ice.lesson:0`.

**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): 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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