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title: Thunder is the bang made when lightning heats the air extremely fast… — Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts · tree and pragmatics
description: Thunder is the bang made when lightning heats the air extremely fast and the air expands suddenly; clouds do not bump together. Who acts: Thunder, lightning, air, clouds. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 17

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Thunder is the bang made when lightning heats the air extremely fast and the air expands suddenly; clouds do not bump together.

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**Who acts:** Thunder, lightning, air, clouds · **What happens:** be, make, heat, expand, not bump · **To what, where:** bang, air

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» 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 (Thunder, lightning, air, clouds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:17
# text = Thunder is the bang made when lightning heats the air extremely fast and the air expands suddenly; clouds do not bump together.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heats	heat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	expands	expand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	bump	bump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Thunder | the bang |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the bang *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **heat** | present | lightning | the air |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 4 | **expand** | present | the air |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **bump** | present · do-support | clouds |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |

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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:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.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): R8-pos-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/).

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