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title: Every summer children drown in UK seas, rivers, lakes and quarries,… — Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and qua… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every summer children drown in UK seas, rivers, lakes and quarries, often on hot sunny days and often close to the shore; it happens fast and quietly, and it can't be undone, so the rules here are not for babies, they are the reason those children aren't you. Who acts: children, it, rules. A sentenc
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# Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries, sentence 1

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Every summer children drown in UK seas, rivers, lakes and quarries, often on hot sunny days and often close to the shore; it happens fast and quietly, and it can't be undone, so the rules here are not for babies, they are the reason those children aren't you.

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**Who acts:** children, it, rules · **What happens:** drown, happen, not undo, not be, be · **To what, where:** UK seas, lifeguard, reason, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» 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 (children, it, rules), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.lesson:1
# text = Every summer children drown in UK seas, rivers, lakes and quarries, often on hot sunny days and often close to the shore; it happens fast and quietly, and it can't be undone, so the rules here are not for babies, they are the reason those children aren't you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drown	drown	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	seas	seas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	quarries	quarry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	fast	fast	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:cop
38	undone	undo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
43	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
44	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	parataxis	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
53	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
54	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	appos	_	_
55	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
57	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **drown** | present | children |  |  | UK seas and rivers and lakes and quarries | summer |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **happen** | present | it |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **undo** | can · passive |  | lifeguard |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | the rules |  |  |  |  | for babies | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | rules *= rule* | the reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.lesson:1`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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