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title: When the droplets join together and grow heavy, they fall as rain, s… — The water cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: When the droplets join together and grow heavy, they fall as rain, snow or hail: this is called precipitation. Who acts: droplets. 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 3

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When the droplets join together and grow heavy, they fall as rain, snow or hail: this is called precipitation.

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**Who acts:** droplets · **What happens:** join, grow, fall, call · **To what, where:** this · **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 (droplets), 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:3
# text = When the droplets join together and grow heavy, they fall as rain, snow or hail: this is called precipitation.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	droplets	droplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
22	precipitation	precipitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **join** | present | the droplets |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the droplets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | present | droplets *= droplet* |  |  |  |  | as rain and snow or hail | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:3`.

**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): 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/).

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