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title: Never walk or drive into flood water: fast water only 15 centimetres… — Weather signs and the 30-30 rule · tree and pragmatics
description: Never walk or drive into flood water: fast water only 15 centimetres (6 inches) deep can knock a person over. Who acts: you, fast water. A sentence of the lesson «Weather signs and the 30-30 rule» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 18

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Never walk or drive into flood water: fast water only 15 centimetres (6 inches) deep can knock a person over.

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**Who acts:** you, fast water · **What happens:** not walk, drive, knock over · **To what, where:** flood water, person

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather signs and the 30-30 rule» 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, fast water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:015-weather-signs.lesson:18
# text = Never walk or drive into flood water: fast water only 15 centimetres (6 inches) deep can knock a person over.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 015-weather-signs.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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	drive	drive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
15	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | flood water |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into water=Trajectory |
| 3 | **knock over** | can | fast water | a person |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent person=Patient |

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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:015-weather-signs.lesson:18`.

**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/).

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