--- title: Just 15 cm of moving water can knock a person down and 30 cm can flo… — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics description: Just 15 cm of moving water can knock a person down and 30 cm can float a car, so turn around and never walk, ride or drive through floodwater. Who acts: 15 cm, 30 cm. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (15 cm, 30 cm), 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:15 # text = Just 15 cm of moving water can knock a person down and 30 cm can float a car, so turn around and never walk, ride or drive through floodwater. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Just just ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 2 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 down down ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 22 around around ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 ride ride VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 drive drive VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 30 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 floodwater floodwater NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **knock down** | can | 15 cm of moving water | a person | | | | down *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent person=Patient | | 3 | **float** | can | 30 cm | a car | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | | 4 | **turn around** | infinitive | | | | | | around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **walk** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **ride** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **drive** | infinitive | | | | floodwater | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through floodwater=Trajectory | 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. **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:15`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Rain, floods and storms, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/14/) - next →: [Rain, floods and storms, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/)