--- title: "An act of God", in insurance (paying a company so that it pays you… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs a… · tree and pragmatics description: "An act of God", in insurance (paying a company so that it pays you if your things are damaged) and contracts, means a natural disaster such as a flood or storm that nobody can be blamed or made to pay for. Who acts: insurance, company, act, flood. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (insurance, company, act, flood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:17 # text = "An act of God", in insurance (paying a company so that it pays you if your things are damaged) and contracts, means a natural disaster such as a flood or storm that nobody can be blamed or made to pay for. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 act act NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 insurance insurance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 paying pay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 17 mark _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 damaged damage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 contracts contract NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 disaster disaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 35 case _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 blamed blame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl:relcl _ _ 43 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 46 obl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | gerund | insurance *not said here* | a company | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Asset | | 2 | **pay** | present | company | you | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset | | 3 | **damage** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | your things | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | a act of God and insurance | a natural disaster | | | | such a flood or storm | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disaster=Topic | | 5 | **blame** | can · passive | a flood or storm *not said here* | nobody | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | participle | a flood or storm *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 7 | **pay** | to-infinitive | a flood or storm *not said here* | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **act** *in a quote* | | God | | | | | | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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:euphemisms:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:17`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/16/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/)