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title: There is no evidence that eating before swimming makes people drown;… — Moving, swimming and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no evidence that eating before swimming makes people drown; the real dangers are deep or cold water and swimming with nobody watching. Who acts: evidence, people, real dangers. A sentence of the lesson «Moving, swimming and sport» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Moving, swimming and sport, sentence 5

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There is no evidence that eating before swimming makes people drown; the real dangers are deep or cold water and swimming with nobody watching.

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**Who acts:** evidence, people, real dangers · **What happens:** be, eat, swim, make, drown, watch · **To what, where:** people, nobody

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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 (evidence, people, real dangers), 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:5
# text = There is no evidence that eating before swimming makes people drown; the real dangers are deep or cold water and swimming with nobody watching.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	nsubj	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
22	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **be** | present | no evidence |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present |  | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drown** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | the real dangers |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **watch** | gerund | the real dangers *not said here* | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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:myths:005-moving-swimming-and-sport.lesson:5`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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