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title: In parts of the USA, outdoor sirens warn of tornadoes; when they sou… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: In parts of the USA, outdoor sirens warn of tornadoes; when they sound, go inside to the lowest floor, away from windows. Who acts: outdoor sirens, sirens. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Sounds that warn, sentence 16

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In parts of the USA, outdoor sirens warn of tornadoes; when they sound, go inside to the lowest floor, away from windows.

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**Who acts:** outdoor sirens, sirens · **What happens:** warn, sound, go · **To what, where:** parts, lowest floor

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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 (outdoor sirens, sirens), 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:16
# text = In parts of the USA, outdoor sirens warn of tornadoes; when they sound, go inside to the lowest floor, away from windows.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sirens	siren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	warn	warn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tornadoes	tornado	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
18	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | outdoor sirens |  |  | parts of the USA |  | of tornadoes | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent of tornado=Topic |
| 2 | **sound** | present | sirens *= siren* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | the lowest floor |  | away, inside *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to floor=Initial\_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:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:16`.

**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 ×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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