--- title: Quicksand can trap your legs, but a person floats in it and does not… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics description: Quicksand can trap your legs, but a person floats in it and does not sink over their head; you get free by moving slowly and leaning back. Who acts: Quicksand, person, you. 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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 (Quicksand, person, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:18 # text = Quicksand can trap your legs, but a person floats in it and does not sink over their head; you get free by moving slowly and leaning back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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 ×1 1 Quicksand quicksand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 trap trap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 17 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 23 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 by by SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 26 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 leaning lean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trap** | can | Quicksand | your legs | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 2 | **float** | present | a person | | | water | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory | | 3 | **not** **sink** | present · do-support | a person *not said here* | | | quicksand's head | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **get** | present | you | | | | | free *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **move** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **lean back** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:18`. **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 ×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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