--- title: Thunder cracks over the house and Grandad pats your hand: "Don't wor… — Weather, lightning and storms · tree and pragmatics description: Thunder cracks over the house and Grandad pats your hand: "Don't worry, lightning never strikes the same place twice!" It's a cosy thing to say in a storm, and it's wrong: tall buildings like the Empire State Building are struck again and again every year. Who acts: Thunder, Grandad, lightning. 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It's a cosy thing to say in a storm, and it's wrong: tall buildings like the Empire State Building are struck again and again every year. **Who acts:** Thunder, Grandad, lightning · **What happens:** crack, pat, not worry, not strike, be, say · **To what, where:** house, hand, same place, cosy thing, storm, tall buildings · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths 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 (Thunder, Grandad, lightning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson:0 # text = Thunder cracks over the house and Grandad pats your hand: "Don't worry, lightning never strikes the same place twice!" It's a cosy thing to say in a storm, and it's wrong: tall buildings like the Empire State Building are struck again and again every year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 015-weather-lightning-and-storms.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 3 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 7 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 pats pat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 worry worry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 strikes strike VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 26 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 cosy cosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:expl 39 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 41 : : PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 42 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ _ 44 like like ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 47 State State PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 Building Building PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 49 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux:pass _ _ 50 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 conj _ _ 51 again again ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 53 again again ADV RB _ 51 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=55:advmod 54 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 55 det _ _ 55 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl:unmarked _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crack** | present | Thunder | the house | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pat** | present | Grandad | your hand | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **worry** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **strike** *in a quote* | present | lightning | the same place | | | | twice *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | lightning | a cosy thing | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | a storm | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in storm=Manner | | 7 | **is** | present | lightning | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **strike** | present · passive | | tall buildings like the Empire State Building | | | again; year | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:myths:015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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