--- title: A drowning person usually can't shout or wave; they bob quietly with… — Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and qua… · tree and pragmatics description: A drowning person usually can't shout or wave; they bob quietly with the mouth at the water line, so if someone in the water looks wrong, you shout for a lifeguard or adult straight away. Who acts: drowning person, children, someone, you. 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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 (drowning person, children, someone, you), 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:3 # text = A drowning person usually can't shout or wave; they bob quietly with the mouth at the water line, so if someone in the water looks wrong, you shout for a lifeguard or adult straight away. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 drowning drown VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 shout shout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 wave wave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 bob bob VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 22 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 29 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 shout shout VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 lifeguard lifeguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 straight straight ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | gerund | | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **shout** *speech: express* | can | a drowning person | | | | | usually *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wave** | infinitive | a drowning person *not said here* | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bob** | present | children *= child* | | | | | with the mouth at the water line; quietly *property* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **look** | present | someone | | | | | wrong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | you | | | | | for a lifeguard or adult; away *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for 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:071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.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): R6-punct-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. 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