--- title: Pull the plug in your sink five times, balance an egg on an ordinary… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics description: Pull the plug in your sink five times, balance an egg on an ordinary Tuesday, leave salty water in the sun, stir cornflour and water into gloop: the world answers for itself. Who acts: you, world. 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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 (you, world), 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:8 # text = Pull the plug in your sink five times, balance an egg on an ordinary Tuesday, leave salty water in the sun, stir cornflour and water into gloop: the world answers for itself. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Pull pull VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 plug plug NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 sink sink NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 balance balance VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Tuesday Tuesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 19 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 stir stir VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 26 cornflour cornflour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 gloop gloop NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 34 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **pull** | imperative | you *not said here* | the plug | | your sink | time | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Theme | | 2 | **balance** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a egg | | | tuesday | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | salty water | | the sun | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in sun=Location | | 4 | **stir** | infinitive | you *not said here* | cornflour and water | | | | into gloop | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cornflour=Patient into gloop=Co-Patient | | 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | world | | | | | for world | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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:8`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Water, deserts and the shape of the land, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/7/) - next →: [Water, deserts and the shape of the land, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/16-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land/)