--- title: For example, when a hurricane comes ashore, its winds push the sea u… — Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and torna… · tree and pragmatics description: For example, when a hurricane comes ashore, its winds push the sea up into a wall of water called a storm surge, and this flooding is often more dangerous than the wind itself. Who acts: hurricane, winds, water, flooding. 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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, winds, water, flooding), 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:5 # text = For example, when a hurricane comes ashore, its winds push the sea up into a wall of water called a storm surge, and this flooding is often more dangerous than the wind itself. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hurricane hurricane NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 ashore ashore ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 up up ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 surge surge NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 flooding flooding NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 often often ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ _ 32 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 35 nmod:unmarked _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | a hurricane | | | | | for example; ashore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **push up** | present | hurricane's winds | the sea | | a wall of water | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sea=Theme into wall=Destination | | 3 | **call** | participle | water *not said here* | a storm surge | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | this flooding | | | | | than the wind hurricane; dangerous, often *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **wind** | | hurricane | | | | | | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/68-storms-and-wild-winds/4/) - next →: [Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/68-storms-and-wild-winds/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/68-storms-and-wild-winds/)