--- title: An amber weather warning means bad weather is likely and people shou… — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics description: An amber weather warning means bad weather is likely and people should be ready; it does not promise a snow day. Who acts: amber weather warning, bad weather, people, weather. A sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» of the adult life course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Elections, crime, the weather, breakin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/) / 20 # Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 20 An amber weather warning means bad weather is likely and people should be ready; it does not promise a snow day. **Who acts:** amber weather warning, bad weather, people, weather · **What happens:** mean, be, not promise · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» of the adult life 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 (amber weather warning, bad weather, people, weather), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:20 # text = An amber weather warning means bad weather is likely and people should be ready; it does not promise a snow day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.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 ×2 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 amber amber ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 14 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl:unmarked 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a amber weather warning | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | bad weather | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | should | people | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* | present · do-support | weather | | | | day | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:20`. **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 ×2. **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. 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