--- title: In a thunderstorm, stay indoors away from windows; counting the seco… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics description: In a thunderstorm, stay indoors away from windows; counting the seconds between the flash and the bang shows how far away the storm is: the longer the gap, the further away it is, so a growing gap means it is moving away. Who acts: you, bang, storm, growing gap. A sentence of the lesson «Facing fear --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/9/) [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/) / [Facing fears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/) / 9 # Facing fears, sentence 9 In a thunderstorm, stay indoors away from windows; counting the seconds between the flash and the bang shows how far away the storm is: the longer the gap, the further away it is, so a growing gap means it is moving away. **Who acts:** you, bang, storm, growing gap, gap · **What happens:** stay, count, show, be, grow, mean · **To what, where:** thunderstorm, gap · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» 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, bang, storm, growing gap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:090-facing-fears.lesson:9 # text = In a thunderstorm, stay indoors away from windows; counting the seconds between the flash and the bang shows how far away the storm is: the longer the gap, the further away it is, so a growing gap means it is moving away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 090-facing-fears.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 thunderstorm thunderstorm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 stay stay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 7 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 between between ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bang bang NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 22 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 further further ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 parataxis _ _ 35 away away ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 42 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 ccomp _ _ 47 away away ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | a thunderstorm | | away, indoors *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in thunderstorm=Location | | 2 | **count** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | second | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **show** | present | the bang | | | | | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the storm | the gap | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | storm | | | | | away, further *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **grow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **mean** | present | a growing gap | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **move away** | present · progressive | gap | | | | | 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:090-facing-fears.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, 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: [Facing fears, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/8/) - next →: [Facing fears, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/)