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title: It takes about a million cloud droplets joined together to make one… — Clouds, rain, snow and hail · tree and pragmatics
description: It takes about a million cloud droplets joined together to make one raindrop heavy enough to fall. A sentence of the lesson «Clouds, rain, snow and hail» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Clouds, rain, snow and hail, sentence 1

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It takes about a million cloud droplets joined together to make one raindrop heavy enough to fall.

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**What happens:** take, join, make, fall · **To what, where:** vapour, million cloud droplets, one raindrop

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clouds, rain, snow and hail» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:067-clouds-rain-snow-hail.lesson:1
# text = It takes about a million cloud droplets joined together to make one raindrop heavy enough to fall.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 067-clouds-rain-snow-hail.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 ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	droplets	droplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	raindrop	raindrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **take** | present |  | vapour |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent droplet=Theme |
| 2 | **join** | participle |  | million cloud droplets *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | one raindrop |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset raindrop=Product |
| 4 | **fall** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:067-clouds-rain-snow-hail.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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/).

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