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title: When a severe weather warning comes on the radio, TV or phone, liste… — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: When a severe weather warning comes on the radio, TV or phone, listen and do what it says with your family; warnings give time to get safe. Who acts: severe weather warning, you, warning, warnings. A sentence of the lesson «Rain, floods and storms» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Rain, floods and storms, sentence 23

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When a severe weather warning comes on the radio, TV or phone, listen and do what it says with your family; warnings give time to get safe.

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**Who acts:** severe weather warning, you, warning, warnings · **What happens:** come, listen, do, say, give, get · **To what, where:** radio · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (severe weather warning, you, warning, warnings), 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:23
# text = When a severe weather warning comes on the radio, TV or phone, listen and do what it says with your family; warnings give time to get safe.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	warnings	warning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | a severe weather warning |  |  | the radio and TV or phone |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on radio=Location |
| 2 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | warning |  |  |  |  | with your family | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent what=Theme with family=Manner |
| 5 | **give** | present | warnings |  |  |  | time |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | warnings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): 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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