--- title: Lightning often strikes the same tall place again and again; the Emp… — Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks · tree and pragmatics description: Lightning often strikes the same tall place again and again; the Empire State Building in New York is hit around twenty times a year. Who acts: Lightning. 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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:physics:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:13 # text = Lightning often strikes the same tall place again and again; the Empire State Building in New York is hit around twenty times a year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.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 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 7 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 again again ADV RB _ 8 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound 14 State State PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Building Building PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 New New PROPN NNP _ 18 flat _ _ 18 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 21 around around ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:unmarked _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strike** | present | Lightning | the same tall place | | | again | often *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | | 2 | **hit** | present · passive | | the State Building in New York | | | time | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | 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:physics:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:13`. **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: [Static electricity: balloons, hair and…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/12/) - next →: [Static electricity: balloons, hair and…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/)