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title: A hurricane in Florida brings huge winds, rain and a rise of the sea… — Weather emergencies · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: hurricane, rise, you, 15 cent
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# Weather emergencies, sentence 2

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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.

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**Who acts:** hurricane, rise, you, 15 centimetres, sea · **What happens:** bring, call, leave, tell, stay, not walk · **To what, where:** huge winds, storm surge, flood water, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather emergencies» 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 (hurricane, rise, you, 15 centimetres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:048-weather-emergencies.lesson:2
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 048-weather-emergencies.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	surge	surge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:mark
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
27	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	drive	drive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
38	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
42	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
43	just	just	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
51	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	off	off	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
53	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **bring** | present | a hurricane in Florida | huge winds and rain and a rise of the sea |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wind=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a rise of the sea *not said here* | a storm surge |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent surge=Recipient |
| 3 | **leave** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, indoors *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **walk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **drive** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | flood water |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through water=Trajectory |
| 8 | **knock off** | can | 15 centimetres of fast water | you |  |  |  | your feet *obl* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 9 | **rise** |  | the sea |  |  |  |  |  | nom rise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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.

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