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title: A comforting saying is not a safety rule; for lightning, follow offi… — Weather, lightning and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: A comforting saying is not a safety rule; for lightning, follow official advice such as the Met Office's. Who acts: comforting saying. A sentence of the lesson «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 17

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A comforting saying is not a safety rule; for lightning, follow official advice such as the Met Office's.

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**Who acts:** comforting saying · **What happens:** not be, follow · **To what, where:** safety rule, official advice

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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 (comforting saying), 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:17
# text = A comforting saying is not a safety rule; for lightning, follow official advice such as the Met Office's.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	comforting	comforting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
14	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Met	Met	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Office	Office	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a comforting saying | a safety rule |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | infinitive |  | the Met Office's official advice |  |  |  | for lightning | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent advice=Theme for lightning=Attribute |

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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:17`.

**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): no change. **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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