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title: In an earthquake drill: drop, cover under a sturdy desk and hold on… — Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridor… · tree and pragmatics
description: In an earthquake drill: drop, cover under a sturdy desk and hold on until the shaking stops. Who acts: you, shaking. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthquake drills, pick-up, phones, tidy desks, homework and group work» of the everyday course of Mova's 
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# Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthquake drills, pick-up, phones, tidy desks, homework and group work, sentence 10

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In an earthquake drill: drop, cover under a sturdy desk and hold on until the shaking stops.

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**Who acts:** you, shaking · **What happens:** drop, cover, hold on, stop · **To what, where:** earthquake drill, sturdy desk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthquake drills, pick-up, phones, tidy desks, homework and group work» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones.lesson:10
# text = In an earthquake drill: drop, cover under a sturdy desk and hold on until the shaking stops.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	drill	drill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
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	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
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	_	_
19	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **drop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a earthquake drill |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in drill=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cover** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a sturdy desk |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | present | the shaking |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones.lesson:10`.

**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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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