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title: Lightning can strike from a storm many kilometres away, so outdoors… — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Lightning can strike from a storm many kilometres away, so outdoors during thunder is not safe. Who acts: Lightning. A sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 26

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Lightning can strike from a storm many kilometres away, so outdoors during thunder is not safe.

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**Who acts:** Lightning · **What happens:** strike, not be · **To what, where:** storm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» 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 (Lightning), 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:26
# text = Lightning can strike from a storm many kilometres away, so outdoors during thunder is not safe.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
12	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	17	nsubj	_	_
13	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:mark
14	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **strike** | can | Lightning |  |  | a storm |  | away *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:26`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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