--- title: Lightning forms when ice and water bumping in a storm cloud build up… — Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks · tree and pragmatics description: Lightning forms when ice and water bumping in a storm cloud build up huge charges that jump to the ground as a giant spark. Who acts: ice, huge charges. A sentence of the lesson «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/14/) [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/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Static electricity: balloons, hair and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/) / 14 # Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks, sentence 14 Lightning forms when ice and water bumping in a storm cloud build up huge charges that jump to the ground as a giant spark. **Who acts:** ice, huge charges · **What happens:** form, bump, build up, jump · **To what, where:** storm cloud, huge charges This is a sentence of the lesson «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» of the physics 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 (ice, huge charges), 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:14 # text = Lightning forms when ice and water bumping in a storm cloud build up huge charges that jump to the ground as a giant spark. # 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): no change 1 Lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 forms form VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 4 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 bumping bump VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 charges charge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 jump jump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **form** | present | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bump** | gerund | ice and water *not said here* | | | a storm cloud | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **build up** | present | ice and water | huge charges | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer charge=Patient | | 4 | **jump** | present | huge charges | | | | | to the ground *result*; as a giant spark | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ground=Result | 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: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): 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. 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