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title: Rub your hands together hard and they get warm: a meteor hits the ai… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics
description: Rub your hands together hard and they get warm: a meteor hits the air at tens of kilometres every second, far faster than a bullet, and the air in front of it is squashed so hard it glows. Who acts: you, hands, meteor, air. A sentence of the lesson «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» of the spa
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# Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, sentence 2

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Rub your hands together hard and they get warm: a meteor hits the air at tens of kilometres every second, far faster than a bullet, and the air in front of it is squashed so hard it glows.

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**Who acts:** you, hands, meteor, air · **What happens:** rub, get, hit, squash, glow · **To what, where:** hands, air, tens

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» of the space 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 (you, hands, meteor, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.lesson:2
# text = Rub your hands together hard and they get warm: a meteor hits the air at tens of kilometres every second, far faster than a bullet, and the air in front of it is squashed so hard it glows.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.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	Rub	rub	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	meteor	meteor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	squashed	squash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	glows	glow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | imperative | you *not said here* | your hands |  |  |  | hard, together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hit** | present | a meteor | the air |  | tens of kilometres | second |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent air=Theme at ten=Destination |
| 4 | **squash** | present · passive |  | the air in front of meteor |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **glow** | present | air |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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:space:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.lesson:2`.

**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/).

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