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title: In a thunderstorm a car protects you mainly because of its metal bod… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics
description: In a thunderstorm a car protects you mainly because of its metal body, not because of its rubber tyres. Who acts: car. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 8

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In a thunderstorm a car protects you mainly because of its metal body, not because of its rubber tyres.

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**Who acts:** car · **What happens:** protect · **To what, where:** you, thunderstorm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:8
# text = In a thunderstorm a car protects you mainly because of its metal body, not because of its rubber tyres.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
16	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **protect** | present | a car |  | you | a thunderstorm |  | because car's metal body and car's rubber tyres; mainly *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |

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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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**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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