--- title: Dad heard it and explained that a running tap can pour away several… — Wasting food and water · tree and pragmatics description: Dad heard it and explained that a running tap can pour away several litres a minute — a bucket's worth in a couple of brushings. Who acts: Dad, running tap. 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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 (Dad, running tap), 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:7 # text = Dad heard it and explained that a running tap can pour away several litres a minute — a bucket's worth in a couple of brushings. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 running running NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 pour pour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 17 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 brushings brushing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Dad | tap | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pour away** | can | a running tap | several litres a minute | | | | away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient | 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:7`. **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. 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