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title: The water on Earth is used again and again in a never-ending journey… — The water cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: The water on Earth is used again and again in a never-ending journey called the water cycle. Who acts: ending journey. A sentence of the lesson «The water cycle» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The water cycle, sentence 0

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The water on Earth is used again and again in a never-ending journey called the water cycle.

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**Who acts:** ending journey · **What happens:** use, not end, call · **To what, where:** water, ending journey, water cycle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The water cycle» of the world 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 (ending journey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:014-the-water-cycle.lesson:0
# text = The water on Earth is used again and again in a never-ending journey called the water cycle.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 014-the-water-cycle.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	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **use** | present · passive |  | the water on Earth |  | a ending journey | again |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **end** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a ending journey *not said here* | the water cycle |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cycle=Recipient |

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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:world:014-the-water-cycle.lesson:0`.

**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/).

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