Sounds that warn, sentence 16
In parts of the USA, outdoor sirens warn of tornadoes; when they sound, go inside to the lowest floor, away from windows.
Who acts: outdoor sirens, sirens · What happens: warn, sound, go · To what, where: parts, lowest floor
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday 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 (outdoor sirens, sirens), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 parts | case |
| 2 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 warn | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 USA | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 USA | det |
| 5 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 parts | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 parts | punct |
| 7 | outdoor | outdoor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sirens | amod |
| 8 | sirens | siren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 warn | nsubj |
| 9 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tornadoes | case |
| 11 | tornadoes | tornado | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 warn | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 sound | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sound | nsubj |
| 15 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sound | punct |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 warn | parataxis |
| 18 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 floor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 floor | det |
| 21 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 floor | amod |
| 22 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 away | punct |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 windows | case |
| 26 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 away | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 warn | punct |
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 | warn speech: warn | present | outdoor sirens | parts of the USA | of tornadoes | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent of tornado=Topic | |||
| 2 | sound | present | sirens = siren | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | the lowest floor | away, inside property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to floor=Initial_Location |
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:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:16.
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): 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.
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