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A sentence of the lesson «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» of the everyd --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/) / 12 # Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom, sentence 12 Counting the seconds between the flash and the bang shows how far away the storm is; if the count gets longer, it is moving away. **Who acts:** Counting, storm, count · **What happens:** count, show, be, get, move away · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» 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 (Counting, storm, count), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:12 # text = Counting the seconds between the flash and the bang shows how far away the storm is; if the count gets longer, it is moving away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 319-anger-fears-and-boredom.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bang bang NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 10 ccomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 count count NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 22 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | gerund | | | | | second | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **show** | present | Counting | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the storm | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the count | | | | | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **move away** | present · progressive | count | | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:12`. **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, 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: [Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder,…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/11/) - next →: [Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder,…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/)