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title: The real safety rule is simple: when thunder roars, go indoors, or i… — Weather, lightning and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: The real safety rule is simple: when thunder roars, go indoors, or into a car with a metal roof, where the electricity flows round the metal shell to the ground; the rubber tyres have nothing to do with it. Who acts: real safety rule, thunder, electricity, rubber tyres. A sentence of the lesson «Wea
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# Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 4

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The real safety rule is simple: when thunder roars, go indoors, or into a car with a metal roof, where the electricity flows round the metal shell to the ground; the rubber tyres have nothing to do with it.

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**Who acts:** real safety rule, thunder, electricity, rubber tyres · **What happens:** be, roar, go, flow, have, do · **To what, where:** nothing

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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 (real safety rule, thunder, electricity, rubber tyres), 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:4
# text = The real safety rule is simple: when thunder roars, go indoors, or into a car with a metal roof, where the electricity flows round the metal shell to the ground; the rubber tyres have nothing to do with it.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
9	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	roars	roar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	round	round	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | the real safety rule |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **roar** | present | thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | indoors *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **flow** | present | the electricity |  |  |  |  | round the metal shell; to the ground | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present | the rubber tyres | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | the rubber tyres *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with electricity | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`.

**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 ×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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