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title: Lightning often hits the tallest thing around, and it can jump from… — Electricity and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Lightning often hits the tallest thing around, and it can jump from a lone tree to a person standing under it; in a storm, go indoors. Who acts: Lightning, person. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity and safety» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Electricity and safety, sentence 12

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Lightning often hits the tallest thing around, and it can jump from a lone tree to a person standing under it; in a storm, go indoors.

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**Who acts:** Lightning, person · **What happens:** hit, jump, stand, go · **To what, where:** tallest thing, lone tree, lightning, storm

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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 (Lightning, person), 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:12
# text = Lightning often hits the tallest thing around, and it can jump from a lone tree to a person standing under it; in a storm, go indoors.
# 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
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
20	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | present | Lightning | the tallest thing |  |  |  | often *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **jump** | can | lightning |  |  | a lone tree |  | to a person *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from tree=Initial\_State to person=Result |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | a person *not said here* |  |  | lightning |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under it=Location |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | lightning *not said here* |  |  | a storm |  | indoors *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in storm=Location |

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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.

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**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:12`.

**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. **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/).

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