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title: Fast floodwater only as deep as your ankle and shin (about 15 cm or… — Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and ra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fast floodwater only as deep as your ankle and shin (about 15 cm or 6 inches) can knock a person over, and water about 30 cm (one foot) deep can float a car. Who acts: Fast floodwater, water. A sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» of the everyday course of 
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# Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows, sentence 5

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Fast floodwater only as deep as your ankle and shin (about 15 cm or 6 inches) can knock a person over, and water about 30 cm (one foot) deep can float a car.

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**Who acts:** Fast floodwater, water · **What happens:** knock over, float · **To what, where:** person, car

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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 (Fast floodwater, water), 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:5
# text = Fast floodwater only as deep as your ankle and shin (about 15 cm or 6 inches) can knock a person over, and water about 30 cm (one foot) deep 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ankle	ankle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shin	shin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:conj
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock over** | can | Fast floodwater | a person |  |  |  | over *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent person=Patient |
| 2 | **float** | can | water | a car |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |

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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:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:5`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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