--- title: If someone is in trouble, you never go in after them: Call 999 (at t… — Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and qua… · tree and pragmatics description: If someone is in trouble, you never go in after them: Call 999 (at the coast ask for the Coastguard), Tell them to lean back and float, Throw something that floats, all from the bank. Who acts: 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 (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:4 # text = If someone is in trouble, you never go in after them: Call 999 (at the coast ask for the Coastguard), Tell them to lean back and float, Throw something that floats, all from the bank. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 999 999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obj _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 20 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Coastguard coastguard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 lean lean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Throw throw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:compound 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 38 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | | | trouble | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **go in** | present | you | | | | after children *= child* | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | 999 | | the bank | | all *nmod:unmarked* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent 999=Theme from bank=Source | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | the coast | | for the Coastguard | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | children *= child* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **lean back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **float** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **throw** | infinitive | | something | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 9 | **float** | present | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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. 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