--- title: For the fun myths, look closely: raindrops aren't teardrop-shaped, "… — Weather, lightning and storms · tree and pragmatics description: For the fun myths, look closely: raindrops aren't teardrop-shaped, "heat lightning" is just faraway lightning, and storms are named from a list, not after people who caused them. Who acts: you, raindrops, heat lightning, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, raindrops, heat lightning, people), 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:5 # text = For the fun myths, look closely: raindrops aren't teardrop-shaped, "heat lightning" is just faraway lightning, and storms are named from a list, not after people who caused them. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 closely closely ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 9 raindrops raindrop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 teardrop teardrop NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 17 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 faraway faraway ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 23 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:conj 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | for the fun myths; closely *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for myth=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | raindrops | | | | | shaped *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | heat lightning | faraway lightning | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **name** | present · passive | | storms | | a list | after people | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **cause** | past | people | raindrops *= raindrop* | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition they=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:5`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Weather, lightning and storms, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/4/) - next →: [Weather, lightning and storms, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/)