--- title: A running tap can waste about 6 litres of water a minute; homes with… — Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, cou… · tree and pragmatics description: A running tap can waste about 6 litres of water a minute; homes with a water meter pay for every litre they use. Who acts: running tap, homes, litres. 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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 (running tap, homes, litres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:13 # text = A running tap can waste about 6 litres of water a minute; homes with a water meter pay for every litre they use. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.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 3 det _ _ 2 running running NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 waste waste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 14 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 meter meter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 litre litre NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **waste** | can | a running tap | 6 litres of water | | | minute | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient | | 2 | **pay** | present | homes with a water meter | | | | | for every litre | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for litre=Theme | | 3 | **use** | present | litres *= litre* | every litre *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «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:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:13`. **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. 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