--- title: A girl in Toronto is scared of the deep end; she learns with a swimm… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Toronto is scared of the deep end; she learns with a swimming teacher, a little deeper each week, and by the summer she jumps in with a smile while the lifeguard watches. 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:3 # text = A girl in Toronto is scared of the deep end; she learns with a swimming teacher, a little deeper each week, and by the summer she jumps in with a smile while the lifeguard watches. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 14 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 21 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 conj _ _ 22 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 31 in in ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 while while SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 lifeguard lifeguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | present | a girl in Toronto | | | | of the deep end | scared *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **learn** | present | girl | | | | | with a swimming teacher | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **jump in** | present | girl | | | | summer | with a smile | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **watch** | present | the lifeguard | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:090-facing-fears.lesson:3`. **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 ×3. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/2/) - next →: [Facing fears, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/)