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title: If a pipe bursts, tell a grown-up at once; turning off the stopcock… — Baths, water at home and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: If a pipe bursts, tell a grown-up at once; turning off the stopcock or main water valve stops the flood. Who acts: pipe, you, turning. 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
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# Baths, water at home and doors, sentence 12

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If a pipe bursts, tell a grown-up at once; turning off the stopcock or main water valve stops the flood.

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**Who acts:** pipe, you, turning · **What happens:** burst, tell, turn off, stop · **To what, where:** grown, stopcock, flood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (pipe, you, turning), 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:12
# text = If a pipe bursts, tell a grown-up at once; turning off the stopcock or main water valve stops the flood.
# 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 ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bursts	burst	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
8	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	up	up	PART	RP	_	8	compound	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stopcock	stopcock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	valve	valve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **burst** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a pipe |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient |
| 3 | **turn off** | gerund |  | the stopcock or main water valve |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stopcock=Patient |
| 4 | **stop** | present | turning | the flood |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality flood=Eventuality |

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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:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors.lesson:12`.

**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 ×2. **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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