--- title: Counting the seconds between flash and bang shows whether the storm… — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics description: Counting the seconds between flash and bang shows whether the storm is moving away: a longer gap means it is going away, a shorter gap means it is coming closer. Who acts: Counting, storm, longer gap, gap. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Counting, storm, longer gap, gap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:18 # text = Counting the seconds between flash and bang shows whether the storm is moving away: a longer gap means it is going away, a shorter gap means it is coming closer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 291-handling-anger-and-fear.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 bang bang NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 ccomp _ _ 32 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | gerund | | | | | second | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **show** | present | Counting | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **move away** | present · progressive | the storm | | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | a longer gap | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go away** | present · progressive | gap | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **mean** | present | a shorter gap | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **come** | present · progressive | gap | | | | | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:18`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Handling anger and everyday fears, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/17/) - next →: [Handling anger and everyday fears, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/)