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title: You can get sunburnt on a cloudy day, because most of the sun's burn… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics
description: You can get sunburnt on a cloudy day, because most of the sun's burning ultraviolet light passes through clouds. Who acts: You, most, sun. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 17

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You can get sunburnt on a cloudy day, because most of the sun's burning ultraviolet light passes through clouds.

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**Who acts:** You, most, sun · **What happens:** get, burn, pass, light · **To what, where:** clouds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» 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 (You, most, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:17
# text = You can get sunburnt on a cloudy day, because most of the sun's burning ultraviolet light passes through clouds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
19	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **get** | can | You |  |  |  |  | sunburnt *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | present | most of the sun's burning ultraviolet light |  |  | clouds |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through cloud=Location |
| 4 | **light** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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): 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/).

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