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title: In an earthquake, drop, take cover under a sturdy desk and hold on u… — Breakfast, the school day and honest homework · tree and pragmatics
description: In an earthquake, drop, take cover under a sturdy desk and hold on until the shaking stops; falling objects cause most injuries. Who acts: you, shaking, falling objects. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Breakfast, the school day and honest homework, sentence 11

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In an earthquake, drop, take cover under a sturdy desk and hold on until the shaking stops; falling objects cause most injuries.

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**Who acts:** you, shaking, falling objects · **What happens:** take, hold on, stop, fall, cause · **To what, where:** cover, earthquake, most injuries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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 (you, shaking, falling objects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:11
# text = In an earthquake, drop, take cover under a sturdy desk and hold on until the shaking stops; falling objects cause most injuries.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
7	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
18	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound
19	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
21	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | cover |  | a earthquake and drop |  | under a sturdy desk | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cover=Value in earthquake=Location |
| 2 | **hold on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | present | the shaking |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cause** | present | falling objects | most injuries |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=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:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:11`.

**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/).

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