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title: Keep away from storm drains, ditches and culverts, because fast wate… — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep away from storm drains, ditches and culverts, because fast water can sweep a child into a drain pipe. Who acts: you, fast water. 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 every clause.
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# Rain, floods and storms, sentence 14

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Keep away from storm drains, ditches and culverts, because fast water can sweep a child into a drain pipe.

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**Who acts:** you, fast water · **What happens:** keep away, sweep · **To what, where:** storm drains, child, drain pipe

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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 (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:235-rain-floods-and-storms.lesson:14
# text = Keep away from storm drains, ditches and culverts, because fast water can sweep a child into a drain pipe.
# 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	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	drains	drain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	culverts	culvert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	drain	drain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **keep away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | storm drains and ditches and culverts |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from drain=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sweep** | can | fast water | a child |  | a drain pipe |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme into pipe=Destination |

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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:14`.

**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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