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title: Nature gives warnings, and part of being safe outdoors is reading th… — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nature gives warnings, and part of being safe outdoors is reading them: a long, strong earthquake near the sea, a hedge of unknown berries, a cactus, an ant hill, a field of lambs. Who acts: Nature, part. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee st
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# Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 0

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Nature gives warnings, and part of being safe outdoors is reading them: a long, strong earthquake near the sea, a hedge of unknown berries, a cactus, an ant hill, a field of lambs.

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**Who acts:** Nature, part · **What happens:** give, be, read · **To what, where:** warnings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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 (Nature, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:0
# text = Nature gives warnings, and part of being safe outdoors is reading them: a long, strong earthquake near the sea, a hedge of unknown berries, a cactus, an ant hill, a field of lambs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.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	Nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	warnings	warning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
9	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod
10	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cactus	cactus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **give** | present | Nature | warnings |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | part *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outdoors, safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | present · progressive | part | warnings *= warning* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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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**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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