--- title: People in small boats trying to reach safety in another country are… — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics description: People in small boats trying to reach safety in another country are sometimes drowned; rescuers save many, but not always all. Who acts: small boats, rescuers. 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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 (small boats, rescuers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:11 # text = People in small boats trying to reach safety in another country are sometimes drowned; rescuers save many, but not always all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 14 drowned drown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 rescuers rescuer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 save save VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 23 advmod _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | gerund | small boats *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **reach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | small boats *not said here* | safety | | another country | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent safety=Theme | | 3 | **drown** | present · passive | | People in small boats | | | | sometimes *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **save** | present | rescuers | many | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:11`. **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. **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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