--- title: The Empire State Building is hit by lightning about 20 to 25 times a… — Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: The Empire State Building is hit by lightning about 20 to 25 times a year, so lightning can strike the same place again and again. Who acts: lightning. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/) / 7 # Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 7 The Empire State Building is hit by lightning about 20 to 25 times a year, so lightning can strike the same place again and again. **Who acts:** lightning · **What happens:** hit, strike · **To what, where:** State Building, same place This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» 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:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:7 # text = The Empire State Building is hit by lightning about 20 to 25 times a year, so lightning can strike the same place again and again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 3 State State PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Building Building PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 18 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 strike strike VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 again again ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 again again ADV RB _ 24 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | present · passive | lightning | the State Building | | | time | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | | 2 | **strike** | can | lightning | the same place | | | again | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | 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. **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:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:7`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/6/) - next →: [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/)