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title: If the gaps between flash and thunder grow shorter, say 15, then 9,… — Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: If the gaps between flash and thunder grow shorter, say 15, then 9, then 3 seconds, the storm is coming closer. Who acts: gaps, storm. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★, sentence 6

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If the gaps between flash and thunder grow shorter, say 15, then 9, then 3 seconds, the storm is coming closer.

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**Who acts:** gaps, storm · **What happens:** grow, come

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» 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 (gaps, storm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:6
# text = If the gaps between flash and thunder grow shorter, say 15, then 9, then 3 seconds, the storm is coming closer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
9	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	say	say	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
12	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	parataxis	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
25	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 | **grow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the gaps between flash and thunder |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present · progressive | the storm |  |  |  | second | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:6`.

**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/).

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