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title: Lightning hits tall objects and travels through water, metal, pipes… — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: Lightning hits tall objects and travels through water, metal, pipes and phone wires. Who acts: Lightning. A sentence of the lesson «Rain, floods and storms» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rain, floods and storms, sentence 19

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Lightning hits tall objects and travels through water, metal, pipes and phone wires.

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**Who acts:** Lightning · **What happens:** hit, travel · **To what, where:** tall objects, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rain, floods and storms» 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:235-rain-floods-and-storms.lesson:19
# text = Lightning hits tall objects and travels through water, metal, pipes and phone wires.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 235-rain-floods-and-storms.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | present | Lightning | tall objects |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme object=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | present | Lightning *not said here* |  |  | water and metal and pipes and phone wires |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory |

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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:235-rain-floods-and-storms.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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