--- title: Light travels so fast that you see lightning almost the moment it ha… — Weather signs and the 30-30 rule · tree and pragmatics description: Light travels so fast that you see lightning almost the moment it happens. Who acts: Light, you, it. A sentence of the lesson «Weather signs and the 30-30 rule» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/11/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Weather signs and the 30-30 rule](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/) / 11 # Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 11 Light travels so fast that you see lightning almost the moment it happens. **Who acts:** Light, you, it · **What happens:** travel, see, happen · **To what, where:** lightning, moment This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather signs and the 30-30 rule» 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 (Light, you, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:015-weather-signs.lesson:11 # text = Light travels so fast that you see lightning almost the moment it happens. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 015-weather-signs.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 Light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 almost almost ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | present | Light | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present | you | lightning | | | moment | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lightning=Stimulus | | 3 | **happen** | present | it | the moment *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | 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:everyday:015-weather-signs.lesson:11`. **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/). - ← previous: [Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/10/) - next →: [Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/)