--- title: In a thunderstorm a car is a safe place: lightning runs over the out… — Electricity and safety · tree and pragmatics description: In a thunderstorm a car is a safe place: lightning runs over the outside of the metal body and into the ground, and it is the metal shell, not the rubber tyres, that protects you. Who acts: car, lightning, metal shell. 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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 (car, lightning, metal shell), 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:3 # text = In a thunderstorm a car is a safe place: lightning runs over the outside of the metal body and into the ground, and it is the metal shell, not the rubber tyres, that protects you. # 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): no change 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 9 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 13 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 outside outside NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 tyres tyre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a car | a safe place | | a thunderstorm | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | present | lightning | | | the outside of the metal body and the ground | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over outside=Trajectory | | 3 | **is a** | present | lightning | the metal shell and the rubber tyres | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **protect** | present | the metal shell and the rubber tyres | | you | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Electricity and safety, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/28-electricity-and-safety/2/) - next →: [Electricity and safety, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/28-electricity-and-safety/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/28-electricity-and-safety/)