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title: Lightning often strikes the same place, especially tall things; the… — When the teacher gets it wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Lightning often strikes the same place, especially tall things; the Empire State Building, a very tall skyscraper in New York, is hit about 20 times a year. Who acts: Lightning. A sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 14

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Lightning often strikes the same place, especially tall things; the Empire State Building, a very tall skyscraper in New York, is hit about 20 times a year.

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**Who acts:** Lightning · **What happens:** strike, hit · **To what, where:** same place, Empire State Building

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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 (Lightning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:14
# text = Lightning often strikes the same place, especially tall things; the Empire State Building, a very tall skyscraper in New York, is hit about 20 times a year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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 ×1
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Building	Building	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	skyscraper	skyscraper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **strike** | present | Lightning | the same place and tall things |  |  |  | often *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 2 | **hit** | present · passive |  | the Empire State Building |  |  | time |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:14`.

**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 ×1. **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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