--- title: When you flush, a valve opens and water from the cistern rushes into… — Heating, water pipes and drains · tree and pragmatics description: When you flush, a valve opens and water from the cistern rushes into the bowl; a float rises as the cistern refills and shuts off the water when it is full; most flushes use several litres. Who acts: you, valve, water, float. 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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, valve, water, float), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:14 # text = When you flush, a valve opens and water from the cistern rushes into the bowl; a float rises as the cistern refills and shuts off the water when it is full; most flushes use several litres. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flush flush VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 valve valve NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cistern cistern NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 13 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 float float NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cistern cistern NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 refills refill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 shuts shut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 when when SCONJ WRB _ 33 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 advcl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ _ 36 flushes flush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 38 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flush** | present | you | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **open** | present | a valve | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rush** | present | water from the cistern | | | the bowl | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bowl=Destination | | 4 | **rise** | present | a float | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **refill** | present | the cistern | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **shut off** | present | the cistern *not said here* | the water | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 7 | **is** | present | water | | | | | full *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **use** | present | most flushes | several litres | | | | | 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:technology:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:14`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Heating, water pipes and drains, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/13/) - next →: [Heating, water pipes and drains, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/)