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title: Other warning sounds come from nature and animals: thunder means lig… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: Other warning sounds come from nature and animals: thunder means lightning is near, and a dog's growl means «back off». Who acts: Other warning sounds, thunder, lightning, growl. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Sounds that warn, sentence 1

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Other warning sounds come from nature and animals: thunder means lightning is near, and a dog's growl means «back off».

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**Who acts:** Other warning sounds, thunder, lightning, growl, dog · **What happens:** come, mean, be, growl · **To what, where:** nature · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday 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 (Other warning sounds, thunder, lightning, growl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:1
# text = Other warning sounds come from nature and animals: thunder means lightning is near, and a dog's growl means «back off».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 012-sounds-that-warn.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
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	growl	growl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	off	off	ADV	RB	_	21	obj	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Other warning sounds |  |  | nature and animals |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from nature=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **mean** | present | thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | lightning |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | a dog's growl |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent off=Topic |
| 5 | **growl** |  | a dog |  |  |  |  |  | nom growl «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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