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title: A dripping tap wastes a lot of water over days, so tell a grown-up. — Baths, water at home and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: A dripping tap wastes a lot of water over days, so tell a grown-up. Who acts: dripping tap. 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 8

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A dripping tap wastes a lot of water over days, so tell a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** dripping tap · **What happens:** drip, waste, tell · **To what, where:** lot, grown · **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 (dripping tap), 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:8
# text = A dripping tap wastes a lot of water over days, so tell a grown-up.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wastes	waste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
15	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	_	13	obj	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **drip** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **waste** | present | a dripping tap | a lot of water |  |  | day |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient up=Topic |

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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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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