--- title: Just 6 inches of moving water can knock a person off their feet. — Weather emergencies · tree and pragmatics description: Just 6 inches of moving water can knock a person off their feet. Who acts: 6 inches. A sentence of the lesson «Weather emergencies» 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/48-weather-emergencies/20/) [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/) / [Weather emergencies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/) / 20 # Weather emergencies, sentence 20 Just 6 inches of moving water can knock a person off their feet. **Who acts:** 6 inches · **What happens:** move, knock · **To what, where:** person This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather emergencies» 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 (6 inches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:048-weather-emergencies.lesson:20 # text = Just 6 inches of moving water can knock a person off their feet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 048-weather-emergencies.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): no change 1 Just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 2 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 inches inch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 off off ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **knock** | can | 6 inches of moving water | a person | | | | off water's feet | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent person=Patient off foot=Co-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:048-weather-emergencies.lesson:20`. **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): no change. **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: [Weather emergencies, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/19/) - next →: [Weather emergencies, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/)