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title: Dad snaps "Phone off!" at the petrol pump, your big cousin swears th… — Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad snaps "Phone off!" at the petrol pump, your big cousin swears the pool water turns red if you wee, and Ella says a shark once swam into the hotel pool through the pipes. Who acts: Dad, big cousin, pool water, you. A sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the m
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# Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 0

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Dad snaps "Phone off!" at the petrol pump, your big cousin swears the pool water turns red if you wee, and Ella says a shark once swam into the hotel pool through the pipes.

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**Who acts:** Dad, big cousin, pool water, you, Ella, shark · **What happens:** snap, swear, turn, wee, say, swim · **To what, where:** Phone, petrol pump, hotel pool · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» 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 (Dad, big cousin, pool water, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:0
# text = Dad snaps "Phone off!" at the petrol pump, your big cousin swears the pool water turns red if you wee, and Ella says a shark once swam into the hotel pool through the pipes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	snaps	snap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pump	pump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	swears	swear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wee	wee	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	32	advmod	_	_
32	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	through	through	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | present | Dad | Phone |  | the petrol pump |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location phone=Theme |
| 2 | **swear** | present | your big cousin |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | present | the pool water |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wee** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ella |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **swim** | past | a shark |  |  | the hotel pool |  | through the pipes; once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=Destination |

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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.

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**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 ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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