--- title: A person drowning often cannot wave or shout; they bob, gasping, wit… — Water safety and the ocean · tree and pragmatics description: A person drowning often cannot wave or shout; they bob, gasping, with the head tilted back, because all their effort goes into breathing. Who acts: person, fish, head, effort. 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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 (person, fish, head, effort), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:10 # text = A person drowning often cannot wave or shout; they bob, gasping, with the head tilted back, because all their effort goes into breathing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 drowning drown VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 wave wave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 shout shout 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 _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 gasping gasp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 with with SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 tilted tilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 27 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 breathing breathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **drown** | gerund | a person *not said here* | | | | | often *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **wave** | can | a person | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | a person *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bob** | present | fish | | | | | | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **gasp** | gerund | fish *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **tilt back** | participle | the head | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **go** | present | fish's effort | | | breathing | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into breathing=Initial\_Location | 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:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:10`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Water safety and the ocean, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/8/) - next →: [Water safety and the ocean, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/)