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title: "If it rains, the grass gets wet" is a one-way street: rain leads to… — "If... then..." and its traps · tree and pragmatics
description: "If it rains, the grass gets wet" is a one-way street: rain leads to wet grass. Who acts: it, grass, rain. A sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# "If... then..." and its traps, sentence 0

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"If it rains, the grass gets wet" is a one-way street: rain leads to wet grass.

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**Who acts:** it, grass, rain · **What happens:** rain, get, be, lead · **To what, where:** way street · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» 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 (it, grass, rain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:0
# text = "If it rains, the grass gets wet" is a one-way street: rain leads to wet grass.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 184-if-then-and-its-traps.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rains	rain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	csubj	_	_
9	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rain** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present | the grass |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a way street |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lead** | present | rain |  |  |  |  | to wet grass | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to grass=Patient |

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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:184-if-then-and-its-traps.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): R6-punct-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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