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title: Clouds act like a blanket at night, so the ground loses the most hea… — Clouds, rain, snow and hail · tree and pragmatics
description: Clouds act like a blanket at night, so the ground loses the most heat on clear nights. Who acts: Clouds, ground. 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 19

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Clouds act like a blanket at night, so the ground loses the most heat on clear nights.

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**Who acts:** Clouds, ground · **What happens:** act, lose · **To what, where:** most heat

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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 (Clouds, ground), 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:19
# text = Clouds act like a blanket at night, so the ground loses the most heat on clear nights.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	act	act	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | present | Clouds |  |  |  | night | like a blanket | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like blanket=Attribute |
| 2 | **lose** | present | the ground | the most heat |  |  | night |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |

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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:19`.

**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, 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/).

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