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title: Lightning kills people every year, most of them outdoors near water,… — Weather signs and the 30-30 rule · tree and pragmatics
description: Lightning kills people every year, most of them outdoors near water, on high ground or under tall trees. Who acts: Lightning. 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.
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# Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 20

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Lightning kills people every year, most of them outdoors near water, on high ground or under tall trees.

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**Who acts:** Lightning · **What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** people, water

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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), 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:20
# text = Lightning kills people every year, most of them outdoors near water, on high ground or under tall trees.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **kill** | present | Lightning | people |  | water | year | on high ground or tall trees | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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:20`.

**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 ×1, 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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