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title: Water has its own rules: real drowning is often silent, with the hea… — Swimming and cycling · tree and pragmatics
description: Water has its own rules: real drowning is often silent, with the head low and no waving, so if someone looks wrong, shout for the lifeguard at once. Who acts: Water, drowning, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Swimming and cycling, sentence 2

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Water has its own rules: real drowning is often silent, with the head low and no waving, so if someone looks wrong, shout for the lifeguard at once.

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**Who acts:** Water, drowning, someone · **What happens:** have, be, look, shout, rule · **To what, where:** own rules

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine 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 (Water, drowning, someone), 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:2
# text = Water has its own rules: real drowning is often silent, with the head low and no waving, so if someone looks wrong, shout for the lifeguard at once.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
8	drowning	drown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	waving	waving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
24	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
25	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Water | Water's own rules |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | drowning |  |  |  |  | often, silent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for the lifeguard | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for lifeguard=Recipient |
| 5 | **rule** |  | Water |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:medicine:042-swimming-and-cycling.lesson:2`.

**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 ×2. **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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