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title: Inside a house you are already safe from lightning; staying away fro… — "It worked once": one example is not all · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside a house you are already safe from lightning; staying away from windows, baths and corded phones in a storm also helps. Who acts: you, staying. A sentence of the lesson «"It worked once": one example is not all» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# "It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 20

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Inside a house you are already safe from lightning; staying away from windows, baths and corded phones in a storm also helps.

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**Who acts:** you, staying · **What happens:** be, stay away, cord, help · **To what, where:** house, windows

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"It worked once": one example is not all» 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, staying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all.lesson:20
# text = Inside a house you are already safe from lightning; staying away from windows, baths and corded phones in a storm also helps.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all.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	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	corded	cord	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present | you |  |  | a house |  | from lightning; safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay away** | gerund |  |  |  | windows and baths and corded phones in a storm |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cord** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | present | staying |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all.lesson:20`.

**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/).

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