--- title: If the toilet is blocked, stop flushing, because flushing again make… — Baths, water at home and doors · tree and pragmatics description: If the toilet is blocked, stop flushing, because flushing again makes it overflow. Who acts: you, flushing, toilet. A sentence of the lesson «Baths, water at home and doors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Baths, water at home and doors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/) / 10 # Baths, water at home and doors, sentence 10 If the toilet is blocked, stop flushing, because flushing again makes it overflow. **Who acts:** you, flushing, toilet · **What happens:** block, stop, flush, make, overflow · **To what, where:** toilet This is a sentence of the lesson «Baths, water at home and doors» of the everyday 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 (you, flushing, toilet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors.lesson:10 # text = If the toilet is blocked, stop flushing, because flushing again makes it overflow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 109-baths-water-and-doors.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 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 blocked block VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 flushing flush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:mark 11 flushing flush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 12 again again ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 overflow overflow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **block** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | the toilet | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **flush** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **flush** | gerund | | | | | again | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | flushing | toilet | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **overflow** | infinitive | toilet *not said here* | | | | | | 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:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors.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. **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: [Baths, water at home and doors, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/9/) - next →: [Baths, water at home and doors, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/)