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title: Lightning can strike the same place more than once, and tall objects… — Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and torna… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lightning can strike the same place more than once, and tall objects are struck most often. Who acts: Lightning. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes, sentence 8

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Lightning can strike the same place more than once, and tall objects are struck most often.

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**Who acts:** Lightning · **What happens:** strike · **To what, where:** same place, tall objects

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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 (Lightning), 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:8
# text = Lightning can strike the same place more than once, and tall objects are struck most often.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | can | Lightning | the same place |  |  |  | once *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 2 | **strike** | present · passive |  | tall objects |  |  |  | often *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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. **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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