--- title: Knowing how water behaves keeps people safe: thin ice, rip currents… — Water safety and the ocean · tree and pragmatics description: Knowing how water behaves keeps people safe: thin ice, rip currents and a person quietly struggling in the water are real dangers, and the safe move is always to call an adult or a lifeguard. Who acts: water, Knowing, person, rip currents. 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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 (water, Knowing, person, rip currents), 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:3 # text = Knowing how water behaves keeps people safe: thin ice, rip currents and a person quietly struggling in the water are real dangers, and the safe move is always to call an adult or a lifeguard. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 behaves behave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 5 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 9 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 rip rip ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 currents current NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 struggling struggle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 dangers danger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 33 advmod _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 34 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 lifeguard lifeguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **behave** | present | water | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | present | Knowing | people | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 4 | **struggle** | gerund | a person *not said here* | | | the water | | quietly *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | rip currents and thin ice and a person | real dangers | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | the safe move | | | | | always, call *property* | tree rules | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Water safety and the ocean, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/2/) - next →: [Water safety and the ocean, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/)