--- title: Many people who drown are trying to save someone else; a panicking p… — Thinking like a lifeguard · tree and pragmatics description: Many people who drown are trying to save someone else; a panicking person in the water can grab a rescuer and pull them under. Who acts: Many people, panicking person. 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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 (Many people, panicking person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:20 # text = Many people who drown are trying to save someone else; a panicking person in the water can grab a rescuer and pull them under. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 drown drown VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obj _ _ 10 else else ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 panicking panicking VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 amod _ _ 14 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 rescuer rescuer NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 under under ADP IN _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 . . 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 | **drown** | present | Many people | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **try** | present · progressive | Many people | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **save** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Many people *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 4 | **panicking** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grab** | can | a panicking person in the water | a rescuer | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rescuer=Theme | | 6 | **pull under** | infinitive | a panicking person in the water *not said here* | people | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.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): 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: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/19/) - next →: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/)