--- title: A family in Texas drove through a flooded road; the water was deeper… — Weather emergencies · tree and pragmatics description: A family in Texas drove through a flooded road; the water was deeper and faster than it looked, and their car floated away until rescuers reached them. Who acts: family, water, road, car. 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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 (family, water, road, car), 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:5 # text = A family in Texas drove through a flooded road; the water was deeper and faster than it looked, and their car floated away until rescuers reached them. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 flooded flood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 parataxis _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 conj _ _ 17 than than SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 until until SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 rescuers rescuer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | past | a family in Texas | | | a flooded road | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through road=Trajectory | | 2 | **flood** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | the water | | | | | deep *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | the water *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **look** | past | road | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **float away** | past | families's car | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **reach** | past | rescuers | families *= family* | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=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:048-weather-emergencies.lesson:5`. **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. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/4/) - next →: [Weather emergencies, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/)