--- title: A father in Ireland jumped into a river to save his son's dog; the c… — Thinking like a lifeguard · tree and pragmatics description: A father in Ireland jumped into a river to save his son's dog; the cold water and current were too strong for him, and both had to be rescued by firefighters. Who acts: father, cold water, both, firefighters. 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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 (father, cold water, both, firefighters), 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:6 # text = A father in Ireland jumped into a river to save his son's dog; the cold water and current were too strong for him, and both had to be rescued by firefighters. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 too too ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 rescued rescue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 xcomp _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 firefighters firefighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:agent _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** | past | a father in Ireland | | | | | into a river *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into river=Result | | 2 | **save** | to-infinitive | a father in Ireland *not said here* | father's son's dog | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | the cold water and current | | | | | for father; strong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | both | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **rescue** | to-infinitive · passive | firefighters | | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/5/) - next →: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/)