--- title: Lightning is the same thing on a gigantic scale: ice and water bumpi… — Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks · tree and pragmatics description: Lightning is the same thing on a gigantic scale: ice and water bumping inside a storm cloud build huge charges that leap to the ground as a giant spark. Who acts: Lightning, ice, huge charges. 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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, 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:3 # text = Lightning is the same thing on a gigantic scale: ice and water bumping inside a storm cloud build huge charges that leap 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 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 gigantic gigantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 scale scale NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 bumping bump VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 15 inside inside ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 charges charge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 leap leap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Lightning | the same thing | | a gigantic scale | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bump** | gerund | ice and water *not said here* | | | a storm cloud | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **build** | present | ice and water | huge charges | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset charge=Product | | 4 | **leap** | present | huge charges | | | the ground | | as a giant spark | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Destination | 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:3`. **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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