--- title: Think of a garden hose bent round a flower bed: cut a straight path… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a garden hose bent round a flower bed: cut a straight path across instead and the water arrives much sooner. Who acts: you, water. A sentence of the lesson «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/6/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/) / 6 # Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 6 Think of a garden hose bent round a flower bed: cut a straight path across instead and the water arrives much sooner. **Who acts:** you, water · **What happens:** think, bend, cut, arrive · **To what, where:** garden hose, flower bed, straight path This is a sentence of the lesson «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» of the geography 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, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.lesson:6 # text = Think of a garden hose bent round a flower bed: cut a straight path across instead and the water arrives much sooner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.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 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 hose hose NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 round round ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 cut cut VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 across across ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 instead instead ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 arrives arrive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 22 much much ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a garden hose | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bend** | participle | | a garden hose *not said here* | | a flower bed | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round bed=Location | | 3 | **cut** | infinitive | | a straight path | | | | across, instead *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset path=Product | | 4 | **arrive** | present | the water | | | | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:geography:020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.lesson:6`. **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. 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