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title: Waking a sleepwalker will not kill them, though they may be confused… — Moving, swimming and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Waking a sleepwalker will not kill them, though they may be confused; it is best to guide them gently back to bed. Who acts: Waking. A sentence of the lesson «Moving, swimming and sport» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Moving, swimming and sport, sentence 14

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Waking a sleepwalker will not kill them, though they may be confused; it is best to guide them gently back to bed.

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**Who acts:** Waking · **What happens:** wake, not kill, be, guide · **To what, where:** sleepwalker, drinks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, swimming and sport» of the myths 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 (Waking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:005-moving-swimming-and-sport.lesson:14
# text = Waking a sleepwalker will not kill them, though they may be confused; it is best to guide them gently back to bed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 005-moving-swimming-and-sport.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Waking	wake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sleepwalker	sleepwalker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:aux:pass
13	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	expl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **wake** | gerund |  | a sleepwalker |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sleepwalker=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **kill** | future | Waking | drinks *= drink* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | may · passive |  | drinks *= drink* |  |  |  | confused *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **guide** | to-infinitive |  | drinks *= drink* |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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:myths:005-moving-swimming-and-sport.lesson:14`.

**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 ×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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