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title: Most people who die in floods are in cars or are walking through wat… — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: Most people who die in floods are in cars or are walking through water; just a little fast water can sweep a car away. Who acts: Most people, little 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 pragmat
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# Rain, floods and storms, sentence 26

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Most people who die in floods are in cars or are walking through water; just a little fast water can sweep a car away.

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**Who acts:** Most people, little fast water · **What happens:** die, be, walk, sweep away · **To what, where:** cars, water, car

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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 (Most people, little 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:26
# text = Most people who die in floods are in cars or are walking through water; just a little fast water can sweep a car away.
# 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): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **die** | present | Most people |  |  |  |  | in floods | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in flood=Attribute |
| 2 | **does** | present | Most people |  |  | cars |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in car=Location |
| 3 | **walk** | present · progressive | Most people *not said here* |  |  | water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sweep away** | can | a little fast water | a car |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory |

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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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**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): no change. **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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