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title: When big hailstones fall, go indoors and stay away from windows and… — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: When big hailstones fall, go indoors and stay away from windows and skylights, because hail can hurt people and break glass. Who acts: big hailstones, you, hail. A sentence of the lesson «Rain, floods and storms» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Rain, floods and storms, sentence 21

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When big hailstones fall, go indoors and stay away from windows and skylights, because hail can hurt people and break glass.

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**Who acts:** big hailstones, you, hail · **What happens:** fall, go, stay away, hurt, break · **To what, where:** windows, people, glass

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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 (big hailstones, you, hail), 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:21
# text = When big hailstones fall, go indoors and stay away from windows and skylights, because hail can hurt people and break glass.
# 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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	skylights	skylight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | big hailstones |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | indoors *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stay away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | windows and skylights |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hurt** | can | hail | people |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient |
| 5 | **break** | infinitive | hail *not said here* | glass |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Patient |

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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:21`.

**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): no change. **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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