--- title: Add quicksand that swallows explorers whole, glass that slowly drips… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics description: Add quicksand that swallows explorers whole, glass that slowly drips down old church windows, and diamonds squeezed out of lumps of coal, and you have the best playground geography there is. Who acts: you, quicksand, glass, diamonds. A sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/2/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Water, deserts and the shape of the land](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/) / 2 # Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 2 Add quicksand that swallows explorers whole, glass that slowly drips down old church windows, and diamonds squeezed out of lumps of coal, and you have the best playground geography there is. **Who acts:** you, quicksand, glass, diamonds · **What happens:** add, swallow, drip down, squeeze out, have · **To what, where:** quicksand, explorers, old church windows, lumps, best playground geography This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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, quicksand, glass, diamonds), 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:2 # text = Add quicksand that swallows explorers whole, glass that slowly drips down old church windows, and diamonds squeezed out of lumps of coal, and you have the best playground geography there is. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 quicksand quicksand NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 swallows swallow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 explorers explorer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 drips drip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 19 squeezed squeeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 out out ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 lumps lump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 31 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 geography geography NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:PronType=Dem 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:cop 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | quicksand and glass and diamonds | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quicksand=Patient | | 2 | **swallow** | present | quicksand and glass and diamonds | explorers | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explorer=Patient | | 3 | **drip down** | present | glass | old church windows | | | | slowly *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Source | | 4 | **squeeze out** | participle | diamonds *not said here* | lumps of coal | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | you | the best playground geography | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geography=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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:2`. **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 ×3, 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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