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title: Big storms such as hurricanes and cyclones are forecast days ahead,… — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: Big storms such as hurricanes and cyclones are forecast days ahead, so families have time to prepare and to leave if told to. Who acts: families. 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 cl
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# Rain, floods and storms, sentence 7

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Big storms such as hurricanes and cyclones are forecast days ahead, so families have time to prepare and to leave if told to.

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**Who acts:** families · **What happens:** forecast, have, prepare, leave, tell · **To what, where:** Big storms · **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 (families), 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:7
# text = Big storms such as hurricanes and cyclones are forecast days ahead, so families have time to prepare and to leave if told to.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cyclones	cyclone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	forecast	forecast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forecast** | present · passive |  | Big storms such hurricanes and cyclones |  |  | day | ahead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | families |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | families *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | families *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | families *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:7`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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