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title: Lying flat on the ground in a thunderstorm makes you more exposed to… — Weather, lightning and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: Lying flat on the ground in a thunderstorm makes you more exposed to current through the ground; the safest places are indoors or in a metal-roofed car. Who acts: Lying, safest places. A sentence of the lesson «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 8

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Lying flat on the ground in a thunderstorm makes you more exposed to current through the ground; the safest places are indoors or in a metal-roofed car.

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**Who acts:** Lying, safest places · **What happens:** lie, make, be, roof · **To what, where:** ground, you

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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 (Lying, safest places), 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:8
# text = Lying flat on the ground in a thunderstorm makes you more exposed to current through the ground; the safest places are indoors or in a metal-roofed car.
# 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	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	exposed	exposed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	9	parataxis	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
29	roofed	roof	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the ground |  | in a thunderstorm; flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
| 2 | **make** | present | Lying | you |  |  |  | exposed *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | the safest places |  |  |  |  | indoors *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **roof** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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:8`.

**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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