--- title: Turning off the tap while brushing your teeth saves a lot of water e… — Wasting food and water · tree and pragmatics description: Turning off the tap while brushing your teeth saves a lot of water every day. Who acts: Turning. A sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Wasting food and water](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/) / 13 # Wasting food and water, sentence 13 Turning off the tap while brushing your teeth saves a lot of water every day. **Who acts:** Turning · **What happens:** turn off, brush, save · **To what, where:** tap, teeth, lot This is a sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» 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 (Turning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:13 # text = Turning off the tap while brushing your teeth saves a lot of water every day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 off off ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl 5 while while SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 brushing brush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn off** | gerund | | the tap | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tap=Patient | | 2 | **brush** | gerund | | your teeth | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | | 3 | **save** | present | Turning | a lot of water | | | day | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Wasting food and water, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/12/) - next →: [Wasting food and water, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/)