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title: A boy in Oklahoma ignored a tornado warning and went outside to watc… — Weather emergencies · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Oklahoma ignored a tornado warning and went outside to watch; flying branches and glass hurt him before he got back in. Who acts: boy, flying branches. A sentence of the lesson «Weather emergencies» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Weather emergencies, sentence 6

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A boy in Oklahoma ignored a tornado warning and went outside to watch; flying branches and glass hurt him before he got back in.

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**Who acts:** boy, flying branches · **What happens:** ignore, go, watch, fly, hurt, get back · **To what, where:** tornado warning, boy

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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 (boy, flying branches), 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:6
# text = A boy in Oklahoma ignored a tornado warning and went outside to watch; flying branches and glass hurt him before he got back in.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tornado	tornado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | past | a boy in Oklahoma | a tornado warning |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | a boy in Oklahoma *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | a boy in Oklahoma *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hurt** | past | flying branches and glass | boy |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
| 6 | **get back** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:048-weather-emergencies.lesson:6`.

**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 ×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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