--- title: Lightning often strikes the same tall place again; the Empire State… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: Lightning often strikes the same tall place again; the Empire State Building in New York is hit around 20 times a year. Who acts: Lightning. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/18/) [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/) / [Sounds wrong, but is right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/) / 18 # Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 18 Lightning often strikes the same tall place again; the Empire State Building in New York is hit around 20 times a year. **Who acts:** Lightning · **What happens:** strike, hit · **To what, where:** same tall place, State Building This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:18 # text = Lightning often strikes the same tall place again; the Empire State Building in New York is hit around 20 times a year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 strikes strike VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound 12 State State PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Building Building PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 around around ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strike** | present | Lightning | the same tall place | | | again | often *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | | 2 | **hit** | present · passive | | the State Building in New York | | | time | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/17/) - next →: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/)