--- title: A girl in Australia stood by the window to watch a storm; lightning… — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Australia stood by the window to watch a storm; lightning struck a tree outside and the window shattered, cutting her arm. Who acts: girl, lightning, window. 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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 (girl, lightning, window), 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:24 # text = A girl in Australia stood by the window to watch a storm; lightning struck a tree outside and the window shattered, cutting her arm. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 outside outside ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 shattered shatter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 cutting cut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | a girl in Australia | | | | | by the window | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | | 2 | **watch** | to-infinitive | a girl in Australia *not said here* | a storm | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme | | 3 | **strike** | past | lightning | a tree | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 4 | **shatter** | past | the window | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **cut** | gerund | the window *not said here* | lightning's arm | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arm=Product | 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:24`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Handling anger and everyday fears, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/23/) - next →: [Handling anger and everyday fears, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/)