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title: Keeping showers short, about five minutes, saves water and the energ… — Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, gettin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Keeping showers short, about five minutes, saves water and the energy used to heat it. Who acts: Keeping. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food, sentence 10

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Keeping showers short, about five minutes, saves water and the energy used to heat it.

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**Who acts:** Keeping · **What happens:** keep, save, use, heat · **To what, where:** showers, water, energy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food» 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 (Keeping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:10
# text = Keeping showers short, about five minutes, saves water and the energy used to heat it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **keep** | gerund |  | showers |  |  | minute | short *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | present | Keeping | water and the energy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  | the energy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **heat** | to-infinitive |  | water |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:10`.

**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, R8-pos-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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