Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 11
Light travels so fast that you see lightning almost the moment it happens.
Who acts: Light, you, it · What happens: travel, see, happen · To what, where: lightning, moment
This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather signs and the 30-30 rule» 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 (Light, you, it), 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 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travels | nsubj |
| 2 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 fast | advmod |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 travels | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 travels | advcl |
| 8 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 moment | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 happens | nsubj |
| 13 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 moment | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | Light | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | you | lightning | moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lightning=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | happen | present | it | the moment not said here | tree rules |
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:015-weather-signs.lesson:11.
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): 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.
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