--- title: Lightning is a giant electric spark; thunder is the sound of the air… — Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms · tree and pragmatics description: Lightning is a giant electric spark; thunder is the sound of the air it heats suddenly bursting outward. Who acts: Lightning, thunder. 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 eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and st…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/) / 14 # Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms, sentence 14 Lightning is a giant electric spark; thunder is the sound of the air it heats suddenly bursting outward. **Who acts:** Lightning, thunder · **What happens:** be, heat, burst · **To what, where:** giant electric spark, sound, air 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 (Lightning, thunder), 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:14 # text = Lightning is a giant electric spark; thunder is the sound of the air it heats suddenly bursting outward. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 bursting burst VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp 19 outward outward ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | Lightning | a giant electric spark | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | thunder | the sound | | | | of the air | tree rules | | 3 | **heat** | present | thunder | the air *not said here* | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument air=Patient | | 4 | **burst** | gerund | thunder *not said here* | | | | | outward, suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:world:015-weather.lesson:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and st…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/13/) - next →: [Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and st…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/)