--- title: A person who is drowning usually can't shout or wave and can look ca… — Swimming and cycling · tree and pragmatics description: A person who is drowning usually can't shout or wave and can look calm, with the mouth at the water line; tell a lifeguard straight away. Who acts: person. 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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 (person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:042-swimming-and-cycling.lesson:12 # text = A person who is drowning usually can't shout or wave and can look calm, with the mouth at the water line; tell a lifeguard straight away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 042-swimming-and-cycling.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 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 drowning drown VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 shout shout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 wave wave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 15 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 lifeguard lifeguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 straight straight ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drown** | present · progressive | a person | | | | | usually *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **shout** *speech: express* | can | a person | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wave** | infinitive | a person *not said here* | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look** | can | a person *not said here* | | | | | with the mouth; at the water line; calm *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at line=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | a lifeguard | | | | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lifeguard=Recipient | 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:medicine:042-swimming-and-cycling.lesson:12`. **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: [Swimming and cycling, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/11/) - next →: [Swimming and cycling, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/)