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title: Never swim near dams or reservoirs; the water is cold and deep, with… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics
description: Never swim near dams or reservoirs; the water is cold and deep, with hidden currents. Who acts: you, water. A sentence of the lesson «Power stations and the grid» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Power stations and the grid, sentence 19

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Never swim near dams or reservoirs; the water is cold and deep, with hidden currents.

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**Who acts:** you, water · **What happens:** not swim, be · **To what, where:** dams

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Power stations and the grid» of the technology 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, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:032-power-stations-and-the-grid.lesson:19
# text = Never swim near dams or reservoirs; the water is cold and deep, with hidden currents.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 032-power-stations-and-the-grid.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): no change
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	swim	swim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	reservoirs	reservoir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	currents	current	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **not** **swim** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | dams or reservoirs |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near dam=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | with hidden currents; cold *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:032-power-stations-and-the-grid.lesson:19`.

**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): no change. **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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