--- title: The stopcock is a tap where the water comes into the house, often un… — Heating, water pipes and drains · tree and pragmatics description: The stopcock is a tap where the water comes into the house, often under the kitchen sink; turning it off stops all the water if a pipe bursts. Who acts: stopcock, water, turning, pipe. 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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 (stopcock, water, turning, pipe), 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:16 # text = The stopcock is a tap where the water comes into the house, often under the kitchen sink; turning it off stops all the water if a pipe bursts. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stopcock stopcock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 15 under under ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 sink sink NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 off off ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 24 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 26 det:predet _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det 29 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound 30 bursts burst VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the stopcock | a tap | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | present | the water | | | the house | | under the kitchen sink; often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **turn off** | gerund | | water | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **stop** | present | turning | all water | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality water=Eventuality | | 5 | **burst** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a pipe | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:16`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Heating, water pipes and drains, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/15/) - next →: [Heating, water pipes and drains, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/)