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title: In an earthquake drill you drop, cover under a desk and hold on, bec… — Getting ready for school and the school day · tree and pragmatics
description: In an earthquake drill you drop, cover under a desk and hold on, because falling objects cause most injuries. Who acts: you, falling objects. A sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 13

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In an earthquake drill you drop, cover under a desk and hold on, because falling objects cause most injuries.

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**Who acts:** you, falling objects · **What happens:** drop, cover, hold on, fall, cause · **To what, where:** earthquake drill, desk, most injuries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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, falling objects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:13
# text = In an earthquake drill you drop, cover under a desk and hold on, because falling objects cause most injuries.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	drill	drill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	amod	_	_
18	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
20	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **drop** | present | you |  |  | a earthquake drill |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in drill=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cover** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a desk |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cause** | present | falling objects | most injuries |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=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:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:13`.

**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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