--- title: A family in Colorado kept hiking up a peak when they heard thunder;… — Weather signs and the 30-30 rule · tree and pragmatics description: A family in Colorado kept hiking up a peak when they heard thunder; lightning struck nearby and knocked a man in their group to the ground, and he needed hospital care. Who acts: family, flash, lightning. 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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 (family, flash, 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:6 # text = A family in Colorado kept hiking up a peak when they heard thunder; lightning struck nearby and knocked a man in their group to the ground, and he needed hospital care. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Colorado Colorado PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 hiking hike VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 peak peak NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 13 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 15 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | a family in Colorado | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hike up** | gerund | a family in Colorado *not said here* | a peak | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location peak=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | past | flash | thunder | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus | | 4 | **strike** | past | lightning | | | | | nearby *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **knock** | past | lightning *not said here* | a man | | flash's group | | to the ground | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent man=Theme to ground=Destination | | 6 | **need** | past | Lightning | hospital care | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=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:6`. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/5/) - next →: [Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/)