--- title: A lifeguard at a pool in Florida saw a child go still under the wate… — Thinking like a lifeguard · tree and pragmatics description: A lifeguard at a pool in Florida saw a child go still under the water while others were playing; she pulled him out within seconds, and he was fine because nobody waited. Who acts: lifeguard, child, others, nobody. 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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 (lifeguard, child, others, nobody), 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:5 # text = A lifeguard at a pool in Florida saw a child go still under the water while others were playing; she pulled him out within seconds, and he was fine because nobody waited. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lifeguard lifeguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 under under ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 within within ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 34 nsubj _ _ 34 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | a lifeguard at a pool in Florida | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | a child | | | the water | still | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under water=Location | | 3 | **play** | past · progressive | others | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pull out** | past | child | lifeguard | | | second | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | lifeguard | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **wait** | past | nobody | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/4/) - next →: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/)