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title: Short showers of about five minutes save water and energy. — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics
description: Short showers of about five minutes save water and energy. Who acts: Short showers. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 11

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Short showers of about five minutes save water and energy.

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**Who acts:** Short showers · **What happens:** save · **To what, where:** water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» 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 (Short showers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:11
# text = Short showers of about five minutes save water and energy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.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): no change
1	Short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **save** | present | Short showers of five minutes | water and energy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

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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): no change. **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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