--- title: In a thunderstorm, the metal body of a car carries lightning round t… — Electricity and safety · tree and pragmatics description: In a thunderstorm, the metal body of a car carries lightning round the people inside and into the ground; the tyres are not what protects them. Who acts: metal body, tyres. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity and safety» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/28-electricity-and-safety/11/) [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/) / [Electricity and safety](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/28-electricity-and-safety/) / 11 # Electricity and safety, sentence 11 In a thunderstorm, the metal body of a car carries lightning round the people inside and into the ground; the tyres are not what protects them. **Who acts:** metal body, tyres · **What happens:** carry, not be, protect · **To what, where:** lightning, thunderstorm, tyres This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity and safety» 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 (metal body, tyres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:028-electricity-and-safety.lesson:11 # text = In a thunderstorm, the metal body of a car carries lightning round the people inside and into the ground; the tyres are not what protects them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 028-electricity-and-safety.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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 thunderstorm thunderstorm NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 round round ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 16 inside inside ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 tyres tyre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 nsubj _ _ 27 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | the metal body of a car | lightning | | a thunderstorm | | round the people | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lightning=Value in thunderstorm=Location | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | the tyres | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **protect** | present | | tyres *= tyre* | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | 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:028-electricity-and-safety.lesson:11`. **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: [Electricity and safety, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/28-electricity-and-safety/10/) - next →: [Electricity and safety, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/28-electricity-and-safety/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/28-electricity-and-safety/)