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title: Most tornadoes last only minutes, but their winds can be faster than… — Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and torna… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most tornadoes last only minutes, but their winds can be faster than those of any hurricane. Who acts: Most tornadoes, winds, kilometres. A sentence of the lesson «Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes, sentence 16

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Most tornadoes last only minutes, but their winds can be faster than those of any hurricane.

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**Who acts:** Most tornadoes, winds, kilometres · **What happens:** last, be, wind

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes» 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 (Most tornadoes, winds, kilometres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:068-storms-and-wild-winds.lesson:16
# text = Most tornadoes last only minutes, but their winds can be faster than those of any hurricane.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 068-storms-and-wild-winds.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 ×3
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	tornadoes	tornado	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	last	last	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
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 | **last** | present | Most tornadoes |  |  |  | minute |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | kilometres's winds |  |  |  |  | than those; fast *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wind** |  | kilometres *= kilometre* |  |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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:068-storms-and-wild-winds.lesson:16`.

**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 ×3. **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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