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title: A lifejacket's foam or gas-filled bag keeps your head above water; w… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics
description: A lifejacket's foam or gas-filled bag keeps your head above water; wear one on boats, and if you fall into cold water, float on your back, keep calm and wave or shout for help. Who acts: foam, you. A sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology course of Mova's primary scho
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# Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 13

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A lifejacket's foam or gas-filled bag keeps your head above water; wear one on boats, and if you fall into cold water, float on your back, keep calm and wave or shout for help.

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**Who acts:** foam, you · **What happens:** fill, keep, wear, fall, float, wave · **To what, where:** head, water, one, boats, cold water, back

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology 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 (foam, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:024-ships-ports-and-submarines.lesson:13
# text = A lifejacket's foam or gas-filled bag keeps your head above water; wear one on boats, and if you fall into cold water, float on your back, keep calm and wave or shout for help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 024-ships-ports-and-submarines.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lifejacket	lifejacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	above	above	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
29	float	float	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
35	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	wave	wave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | present | foam or a lifejacket's filled bag | your head |  | water |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Theme above water=Location |
| 3 | **wear** | infinitive |  | one |  | boats |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source |
| 4 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | into cold water *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result |
| 5 | **float** | infinitive | foam or a lifejacket's filled bag *not said here* |  |  | your back |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 6 | **keep** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **wave** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |

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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:technology:024-ships-ports-and-submarines.lesson:13`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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