--- title: Your tap and your toilet are among the greatest life-savers ever inv… — Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers… · tree and pragmatics description: Your tap and your toilet are among the greatest life-savers ever invented, even if no game gives them a wonder. Who acts: tap, game, Your. A sentence of the lesson «Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/73-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe/4/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Cities: why they grow, and how water a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/73-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe/) / 4 # Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe, sentence 4 Your tap and your toilet are among the greatest life-savers ever invented, even if no game gives them a wonder. **Who acts:** tap, game, Your · **What happens:** be, invent, give, tap · **To what, where:** greatest life savers, wonder, taps This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe» of the history 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 (tap, game, Your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.lesson:4 # text = Your tap and your toilet are among the greatest life-savers ever invented, even if no game gives them a wonder. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 7 among among ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 10 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 savers saver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 13 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 14 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 even even ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **is** | present | Your tap and your toilet | | | | | among the greatest life savers | tree rules | | 2 | **invent** | participle | | the greatest life savers *not said here* | | | ever | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | no game | a wonder | taps *= tap* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient wonder=Theme | | 4 | **tap** | | Your | | | | | | nom tap «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:history:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.lesson:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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