--- title: Example: on a beach in Florida, a boy counts 12 seconds from flash t… — Weather signs and the 30-30 rule · tree and pragmatics description: Example: on a beach in Florida, a boy counts 12 seconds from flash to bang — the lightning is about 4 kilometres away, close enough to strike, so his family leaves the beach. Who acts: boy, lightning, family. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, lightning, family), 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:5 # text = Example: on a beach in Florida, a boy counts 12 seconds from flash to bang — the lightning is about 4 kilometres away, close enough to strike, so his family leaves the beach. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 10 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis 12 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 to to ADP TO _ 17 case _ _ 17 bang bang NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 28 enough enough ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 strike strike VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | a boy | | | | second | from flash to bang; on a beach in Florida | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on beach=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | the lightning | 4 kilometres | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | the lightning *not said here* | | | | | enough *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **strike** | to-infinitive | the lightning *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | present | boy's family | the beach | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Theme | 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:5`. **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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/4/) - next →: [Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/)