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title: For example, a raindrop that lands on you today may once have been i… — The water cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, a raindrop that lands on you today may once have been in an ocean, in a cloud over another continent, or even drunk by a dinosaur. Who acts: raindrop. 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 e
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# The water cycle, sentence 5

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For example, a raindrop that lands on you today may once have been in an ocean, in a cloud over another continent, or even drunk by a dinosaur.

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**Who acts:** raindrop · **What happens:** land, be · **To what, where:** ocean

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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 (raindrop), 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:5
# text = For example, a raindrop that lands on you today may once have been in an ocean, in a cloud over another continent, or even drunk by a dinosaur.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	raindrop	raindrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **land** | present | a raindrop for example |  |  |  | today | on you | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on you=Destination |
| 2 | **be** | may · perfect | a raindrop for example |  |  | a ocean and a cloud over another continent |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location |

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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:5`.

**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): 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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