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title: Stratus clouds are low flat grey sheets. — Clouds, rain, snow and hail · tree and pragmatics
description: Stratus clouds are low flat grey sheets. Who acts: Stratus clouds. 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 11

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Stratus clouds are low flat grey sheets.

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**Who acts:** Stratus clouds · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** low flat grey sheets

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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: who acts (Stratus clouds), 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:11
# text = Stratus clouds are low flat grey sheets.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Stratus	stratus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
5	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	.	.	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 a** | present | Stratus clouds | low flat grey sheets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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