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title: The water looks only ankle deep, but his dad turns the car around, b… — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: The water looks only ankle deep, but his dad turns the car around, because nobody can see how deep or fast it really is. Who acts: water, dad, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Rain, floods and storms» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Rain, floods and storms, sentence 10

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The water looks only ankle deep, but his dad turns the car around, because nobody can see how deep or fast it really is.

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**Who acts:** water, dad, nobody · **What happens:** look, turn around, see, be · **To what, where:** car · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rain, floods and storms» 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, dad, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms.lesson:10
# text = The water looks only ankle deep, but his dad turns the car around, because nobody can see how deep or fast it really is.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 235-rain-floods-and-storms.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	ankle	ankle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	around	around	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
25	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **look** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **turn around** | present | boy's dad | the car |  |  |  | around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | can | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | water |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:235-rain-floods-and-storms.lesson:10`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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