Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 17
Lightning can strike the same place more than once; tall towers are struck many times a year.
Who acts: Lightning · What happens: strike · To what, where: same place, tall towers
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 (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 | Lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strike | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 strike | aux |
| 3 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strike | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 strike | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 more | fixed |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 more | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 strike | punct |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 towers | amod |
| 12 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 struck | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 struck | aux:pass |
| 14 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 strike | parataxis |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 times | amod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 struck | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 year | det |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strike | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | can | Lightning | the same place | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | ||||
| 2 | strike | present · passive | tall towers | time | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:17.
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): R5-strong ×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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