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title: Everyone in a small boat should wear a life jacket. — Swimming basics and water confidence · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone in a small boat should wear a life jacket. Who acts: Everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming basics and water confidence» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 16

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Everyone in a small boat should wear a life jacket.

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**Who acts:** Everyone · **What happens:** wear · **To what, where:** life jacket

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming basics and water confidence» 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 (Everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:007-swimming-and-water.lesson:16
# text = Everyone in a small boat should wear a life jacket.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 007-swimming-and-water.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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **wear** | should | Everyone | a life jacket |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=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:007-swimming-and-water.lesson:16`.

**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/).

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