Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 2
Screamed makes the wind sound wild and frightening, like a person in terror.
Who acts: wind · What happens: scream, make, sound · To what, where: wind
This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the english 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 (wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sound | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 frightening | cc |
| 8 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wild | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 person | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 person | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sound | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 terror | case |
| 14 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 person | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | the wind | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sound | infinitive | the wind not said here | like a person in terror; wild property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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, 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:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.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): 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.
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