--- title: A girl in Florida was too scared to tell anyone she could not swim a… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Florida was too scared to tell anyone she could not swim and went into the deep end with friends; a lifeguard had to pull her out. Who acts: girl, lifeguard. 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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 (girl, lifeguard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:090-facing-fears.lesson:15 # text = A girl in Florida was too scared to tell anyone she could not swim and went into the deep end with friends; a lifeguard had to pull her out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 090-facing-fears.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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lifeguard lifeguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is** | past | a girl in Florida | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a girl in Florida *not said here* | anyone | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **swim** | could | girl | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | a girl in Florida *not said here* | | | | into the deep end | with friends | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into end=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **have** | past | a lifeguard | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pull out** | to-infinitive | a lifeguard *not said here* | lifeguard | | | | | tree rules | 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:090-facing-fears.lesson:15`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [Facing fears, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/14/) - next →: [Facing fears, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/)