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title: In the middle of a hurricane is the eye, a calm area with light wind… — Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and torna… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of a hurricane is the eye, a calm area with light winds and often a clear sky, ringed by the strongest winds of all. Who acts: middle. A sentence of the lesson «Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes, sentence 3

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In the middle of a hurricane is the eye, a calm area with light winds and often a clear sky, ringed by the strongest winds of all.

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**Who acts:** middle · **What happens:** be, ring · **To what, where:** eye, clear sky

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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 (middle), 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:3
# text = In the middle of a hurricane is the eye, a calm area with light winds and often a clear sky, ringed by the strongest winds of all.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	ringed	ring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:agent	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | the middle of a hurricane | the eye and a calm area with light winds and a clear sky |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ring** | participle |  | a clear sky *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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:068-storms-and-wild-winds.lesson:3`.

**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): no change. **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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