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title: Lightning can strike more than 10 miles (about 16 kilometres) away f… — Weather signs and the 30-30 rule · tree and pragmatics
description: Lightning can strike more than 10 miles (about 16 kilometres) away from the storm that makes it, even where it is still sunny. Who acts: Lightning, storm, mile. 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 th
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# Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 19

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Lightning can strike more than 10 miles (about 16 kilometres) away from the storm that makes it, even where it is still sunny.

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**Who acts:** Lightning, storm, mile · **What happens:** strike, make, be · **To what, where:** 10 miles, mile

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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 (Lightning, storm, mile), 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:19
# text = Lightning can strike more than 10 miles (about 16 kilometres) away from the storm that makes it, even where it is still sunny.
# 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): no change
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | can | Lightning | 10 miles |  |  |  | away *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | the storm | mile |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | mile |  |  |  | still | sunny *property* | tree rules |

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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:015-weather-signs.lesson:19`.

**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): no change. **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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