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title: A girl in a backyard pool in California got her long hair caught nea… — Pools, lakes and ice · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in a backyard pool in California got her long hair caught near a pool drain; an adult switched off the pump, and she was freed after a frightening moment. Who acts: girl, long hair, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Pools, lakes and ice» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Pools, lakes and ice, sentence 6

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A girl in a backyard pool in California got her long hair caught near a pool drain; an adult switched off the pump, and she was freed after a frightening moment.

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**Who acts:** girl, long hair, adult · **What happens:** get, catch, switch off, free · **To what, where:** long hair, pool drain, pump, girl

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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 (girl, long hair, adult), 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:6
# text = A girl in a backyard pool in California got her long hair caught near a pool drain; an adult switched off the pump, and she was freed after a frightening moment.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	backyard	backyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	drain	drain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	switched	switch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pump	pump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **get** | past | a girl in a backyard pool in California | girl's long hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | participle | girl's long hair *not said here* |  |  | a pool drain |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **switch off** | past | a adult | the pump |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pump=Patient |
| 4 | **free** | past · passive |  | girl |  |  | moment |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |

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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:6`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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