--- title: A hurricane is a giant spinning storm that forms over warm tropical… — Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and torna… · tree and pragmatics description: A hurricane is a giant spinning storm that forms over warm tropical seas: the warm water feeds it with rising damp air, so it grows stronger over the sea and weakens when it moves over land or cold water. Who acts: hurricane, giant spinning storm, warm water, water. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hurricane, giant spinning storm, warm water, water), 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:2 # text = A hurricane is a giant spinning storm that forms over warm tropical seas: the warm water feeds it with rising damp air, so it grows stronger over the sea and weakens when it moves over land or cold water. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hurricane hurricane NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 spinning spin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 7 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 forms form VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 22 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 xcomp _ _ 29 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 weakens weaken VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 34 when when SCONJ WRB _ 36 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 37 over over ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a hurricane | a giant spinning storm | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **form** | present | a giant spinning storm | | | warm tropical seas | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location | | 4 | **feed** | present | the warm water | hurricane | | | | with rising damp air | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **rise** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **grow** | present | water | | | | | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **weaken** | present | water *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **move** | present | water | | | land or cold water | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over land=Trajectory | 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:068-storms-and-wild-winds.lesson:2`. **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, 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: [Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/68-storms-and-wild-winds/1/) - next →: [Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/68-storms-and-wild-winds/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/68-storms-and-wild-winds/)