--- title: A family in Texas drove into a flooded road thinking it was shallow;… — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics description: A family in Texas drove into a flooded road thinking it was shallow; the water swept the car off the road and they had to be rescued from the roof. Who acts: family, road, water, families. 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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 (family, road, water, families), 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:24 # text = A family in Texas drove into a flooded road thinking it was shallow; the water swept the car off the road and they had to be rescued from the roof. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 flooded flood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 swept sweep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 off off ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 rescued rescue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 xcomp _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | past | a family in Texas | | | a flooded road | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into road=Trajectory | | 2 | **flood** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | a family in Texas *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | road | | | | | shallow *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sweep** | past | the water | the car | | the road | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent car=Theme off road=Trajectory | | 6 | **have** | past | families *= family* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **rescue** | to-infinitive · passive | families *= family* *not said here* | | | the roof | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: from roof=Source | 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:24`. **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/). - ← previous: [Rain, floods and storms, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/23/) - next →: [Rain, floods and storms, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/)