--- title: Weather emergencies — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Weather emergencies», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every region has its own dangerous weather, and families get ready by having a plan, an emergency kit with water, food, a torch and a radio, and by l --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/) [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/) / Weather emergencies # Weather emergencies Lesson 48 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/0/) — Every region has its own dangerous weather, and families get ready by having a plan, an emergency kit with water, food, a torch and a radio, and by listening to official warnings. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/2/) — A hurricane in Florida brings huge winds, rain and a rise of the sea called a storm surge; you leave if told to, stay indoors away from windows, and never walk or drive through flood water, because just 15 centimetres of fast water can knock you off your feet. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/3/) — In an earthquake in California or New Zealand you drop to your hands and knees, take cover under a strong table and hold on until the shaking stops; if you are by the sea and the shaking was long or strong, you go to high ground at once, because a tsunami may follow. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/4/) — In a bushfire in Australia the safest choice is to leave early, as your family's plan says; in a Canadian blizzard you stay indoors, and if you must go out you cover your skin against frostbite. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/5/) — A family in Texas drove through a flooded road; the water was deeper and faster than it looked, and their car floated away until rescuers reached them. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/6/) — A boy in Oklahoma ignored a tornado warning and went outside to watch; flying branches and glass hurt him before he got back in. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/7/) — A tornado warning means a tornado has been seen or found by radar, so you take shelter at once. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/8/) — The safest place in a tornado is a basement or storm shelter, or an inside room on the lowest floor with no windows. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/9/) — A mobile home or a car is not safe in a tornado; you go to a strong building or storm shelter nearby. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/10/) — In a hurricane you stay indoors away from windows, or leave the area if officials tell you to. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/11/) — The calm eye of a hurricane is followed by strong winds again, so you stay inside. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/12/) — You never walk, swim or drive through flood water. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/13/) — In an earthquake you drop, cover and hold on; if you are outside, you first move away from walls, buildings and wires that could fall. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/14/) — Running outside during an earthquake is dangerous because of falling glass and bricks. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/15/) — Near the coast, a long or strong earthquake is a warning to go to high ground in case of a tsunami, a giant wave that an earthquake can cause. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/16/) — In a bushfire, leaving early is the safest choice. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/17/) — Bushfire smoke is harmful, so you stay indoors with windows closed or leave as your plan says. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/18/) — Frostbite makes skin white or greyish and numb, usually on fingers, toes, ears and nose; it is warmed gently with warm, not hot, water, never rubbed with snow or held by a fire. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/19/) — A family emergency kit holds water, food, a torch, batteries, a radio and first aid things; a battery radio still gives warnings when the power and phones fail. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/20/) — Just 6 inches of moving water can knock a person off their feet. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/21/) — About a foot of fast-moving water can carry away most cars. - ← previous: [Hiking and the outdoors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/47-hiking-and-the-outdoors/) - next →: [Lost outdoors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)