---
title: The 30-30 rule: if thunder comes 30 seconds or less after the flash,… — Weather signs and the 30-30 rule · tree and pragmatics
description: The 30-30 rule: if thunder comes 30 seconds or less after the flash, go inside now, and wait 30 minutes after the last thunder before going out. Who acts: thunder. 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
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 3

# Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The 30-30 rule: if thunder comes 30 seconds or less after the flash, go inside now, and wait 30 minutes after the last thunder before going out.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** thunder · **What happens:** come, go, wait, go out

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (thunder), 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:3
# text = The 30-30 rule: if thunder comes 30 seconds or less after the flash, go inside now, and wait 30 minutes after the last thunder before going out.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	30-30	30-30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
8	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:cc
11	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
17	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thunder |  |  |  | second |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now | inside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | minute |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:3`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/2/)
- next →: [Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/4/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/)

