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title: Counting between a lightning flash and the thunder shows a storm mov… — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Counting between a lightning flash and the thunder shows a storm moving away; most spiders are harmless; films use special effects. Who acts: storm, most spiders, films. A sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 5

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Counting between a lightning flash and the thunder shows a storm moving away; most spiders are harmless; films use special effects.

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**Who acts:** storm, most spiders, films · **What happens:** count, show, move away, be, use · **To what, where:** storm, special effects

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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 (storm, most spiders, films), 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:5
# text = Counting between a lightning flash and the thunder shows a storm moving away; most spiders are harmless; films use special effects.
# 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
1	Counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj
9	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
22	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **count** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | between a lightning flash and the thunder | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **show** | present |  | a storm |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent storm=Recipient |
| 3 | **move away** | gerund | a storm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | most spiders |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** | present | films | special effects |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:5`.

**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. **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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