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title: Hail is balls of ice that grow in tall storm clouds, carried up and… — Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: Hail is balls of ice that grow in tall storm clouds, carried up and down by strong winds. Who acts: Hail, ice. A sentence of the lesson «Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms, sentence 13

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Hail is balls of ice that grow in tall storm clouds, carried up and down by strong winds.

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**Who acts:** Hail, ice · **What happens:** be, grow, carry up · **To what, where:** balls, tall storm clouds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms» of the world 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 (Hail, ice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:015-weather.lesson:13
# text = Hail is balls of ice that grow in tall storm clouds, carried up and down by strong winds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 015-weather.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	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | Hail | balls |  |  |  | of ice | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | ice |  |  | tall storm clouds |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location |
| 3 | **carry up** | participle |  | tall storm clouds *not said here* |  |  |  | by strong winds | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:world:015-weather.lesson:13`.

**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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