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title: "Red sky at night, shepherd's delight" is partly true in places like… — Weather, lightning and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: "Red sky at night, shepherd's delight" is partly true in places like Britain, where weather usually comes from the west, but it isn't reliable everywhere. Who acts: Red sky, weather, shepherd. A sentence of the lesson «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 12

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"Red sky at night, shepherd's delight" is partly true in places like Britain, where weather usually comes from the west, but it isn't reliable everywhere.

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**Who acts:** Red sky, weather, shepherd · **What happens:** be, come, not be, delight · **To what, where:** places, west

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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 (Red sky, weather, shepherd), 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:12
# text = "Red sky at night, shepherd's delight" is partly true in places like Britain, where weather usually comes from the west, but it isn't reliable everywhere.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	reliable	reliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
32	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is** | present | Red sky at night |  |  | places like Britain |  | partly, true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | weather |  |  | the west |  | usually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from west=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | weather |  |  |  |  | everywhere, reliable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **delight** *in a quote* |  | shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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**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:12`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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