---
title: For example, you see the flash before you hear the thunder, because… — Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, you see the flash before you hear the thunder, because light travels much faster than sound. Who acts: you, light. 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 clau
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 7

# Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
For example, you see the flash before you hear the thunder, because light travels much faster than sound.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, light · **What happens:** see, hear, travel · **To what, where:** flash, thunder

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (you, light), 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:7
# text = For example, you see the flash before you hear the thunder, because light travels much faster than sound.
# 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	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you | the flash |  |  |  | for example | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flash=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | present | you | the thunder |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus |
| 3 | **travel** | present | light |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:7`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and st…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/6/)
- next →: [Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and st…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/8/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/)