Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 15
A tall lone tree is a dangerous place to shelter, because lightning often strikes tall objects.
Who acts: tall lone tree, lightning · What happens: be, shelter, strike · To what, where: dangerous place, tall objects
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 (tall lone tree, lightning), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | amod |
| 3 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | amod |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 shelter | mark |
| 10 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 place | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strikes | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 strikes | mark |
| 13 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strikes | nsubj |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 strikes | advmod |
| 15 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | advcl |
| 16 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 objects | amod |
| 17 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 strikes | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a tall lone tree | a dangerous place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shelter | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | strike | present | lightning | tall objects | often property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Patient |
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:15.
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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