--- title: About 15 cm (6 inches) of moving water can knock a person down, and… — Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and ra… · tree and pragmatics description: About 15 cm (6 inches) of moving water can knock a person down, and about 30 cm (1 foot) can float a car. 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:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:23 # text = About 15 cm (6 inches) of moving water can knock a person down, and about 30 cm (1 foot) can float a car. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 5 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 inches inch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 of of SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 22 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 moving water | a person | | | | | 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 | 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:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:23`. **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 ×2, 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: [Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, flo…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain/22/) - next →: [Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, flo…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain/)