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title: Water under a calm surface can still be moving fast enough to pull a… — Campfires, cold nights and rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: Water under a calm surface can still be moving fast enough to pull a swimmer downstream. Who acts: Water. A sentence of the lesson «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Campfires, cold nights and rivers, sentence 16

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Water under a calm surface can still be moving fast enough to pull a swimmer downstream.

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**Who acts:** Water · **What happens:** move, pull · **To what, where:** swimmer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» 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 (Water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers.lesson:16
# text = Water under a calm surface can still be moving fast enough to pull a swimmer downstream.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 231-campfires-and-rivers.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	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	downstream	downstream	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | can · progressive | Water under a calm surface |  |  |  | still | enough, fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | to-infinitive | Water under a calm surface *not said here* | a swimmer |  |  |  | downstream *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=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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**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:231-campfires-and-rivers.lesson:16`.

**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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