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title: When you are thirsty, drink water; children need about six to eight… — Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns… · tree and pragmatics
description: When you are thirsty, drink water; children need about six to eight cups a day, and more when it is hot or they are active. Who acts: you, children, water. A sentence of the lesson «Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses» of the everyday course of Mova's primar
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# Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses, sentence 8

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When you are thirsty, drink water; children need about six to eight cups a day, and more when it is hot or they are active.

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**Who acts:** you, children, water · **What happens:** be, drink, need · **To what, where:** water, six cups

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses» 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 (you, children, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:318-water-cuts-bruises-bumps-burns-growing-and-seeing.lesson:8
# text = When you are thirsty, drink water; children need about six to eight cups a day, and more when it is hot or they are active.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 318-water-cuts-bruises-bumps-burns-growing-and-seeing.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | thirsty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | present | children | six cups  a day |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cup=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | water |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | active *property* | tree rules |

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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:318-water-cuts-bruises-bumps-burns-growing-and-seeing.lesson:8`.

**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): R6-punct-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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