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title: Before a hurricane or cyclone, bring in loose garden things, pack an… — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: Before a hurricane or cyclone, bring in loose garden things, pack an emergency kit and follow evacuation orders, because strong winds turn loose objects into missiles and storm surges flood coasts. Who acts: you, strong winds, storm surges. A sentence of the lesson «Rain, floods and storms» of the e
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# Rain, floods and storms, sentence 22

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Before a hurricane or cyclone, bring in loose garden things, pack an emergency kit and follow evacuation orders, because strong winds turn loose objects into missiles and storm surges flood coasts.

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**Who acts:** you, strong winds, storm surges · **What happens:** bring in, pack, follow, turn, flood · **To what, where:** loose garden things, emergency kit, evacuation orders, loose objects, missiles, coasts

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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 (you, strong winds, storm surges), 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:22
# text = Before a hurricane or cyclone, bring in loose garden things, pack an emergency kit and follow evacuation orders, because strong winds turn loose objects into missiles and storm surges flood coasts.
# 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
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pack	pack	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	kit	kit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
19	evacuation	evacuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
26	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	missiles	missile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	surges	surge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	flood	flood	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring in** | imperative | you *not said here* | loose garden things |  |  | before a hurricane or cyclone |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Asset |
| 2 | **pack** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a emergency kit |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme kit=Destination |
| 3 | **follow** | infinitive | you *not said here* | evacuation orders |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | present | strong winds | loose objects |  | missiles |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent object=Theme into missile=Trajectory |
| 5 | **flood** | present | storm surges | coasts |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coast=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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**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. **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.

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