--- title: A car with a metal roof protects you from lightning because the elec… — Weather, lightning and storms · tree and pragmatics description: A car with a metal roof protects you from lightning because the electricity flows around the outside metal shell to the ground; the tyres are too thin to matter. Who acts: car, electricity, tyres. A sentence of the lesson «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Weather, lightning and storms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/) / 7 # Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 7 A car with a metal roof protects you from lightning because the electricity flows around the outside metal shell to the ground; the tyres are too thin to matter. **Who acts:** car, electricity, tyres · **What happens:** protect, flow, be, matter · **To what, where:** you, outside metal shell 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 (car, electricity, 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:7 # text = A car with a metal roof protects you from lightning because the electricity flows around the outside metal shell to the ground; the tyres are too thin to matter. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 around around ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 outside outside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 tyres tyre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 matter matter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:xcomp 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protect** | present | a car with a metal roof | | you | | | from lightning | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from lightning=Theme | | 2 | **flow** | present | the electricity | | | the outside metal shell | | to the ground | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around shell=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | the tyres | | | | | thin *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **matter** | to-infinitive | the tyres *not said here* | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Weather, lightning and storms, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/6/) - next →: [Weather, lightning and storms, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/)