Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 16
A hard-topped metal car protects you because its metal body carries the lightning around you; the rubber tyres do not.
Who acts: topped metal car, metal body · What happens: top, protect, carry · To what, where: you, lightning
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 (topped metal car, metal body), 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 | 6 car | det |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 topped | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 hard | punct |
| 4 | topped | top | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 car | amod |
| 5 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 car | compound |
| 6 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 protects | nsubj |
| 7 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 protects | obj |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 carries | mark |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 body | compound |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carries | nsubj |
| 13 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 protects | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lightning | det |
| 15 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carries | obj |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 carries | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tyres | det |
| 20 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tyres | compound |
| 21 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 do | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 protects | parataxis |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 do | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 protects | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | top | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | protect | present | a topped metal car | you | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | car's metal body | the lightning | around you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lightning=Theme |
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: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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