Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 20
Lightning kills people every year, most of them outdoors near water, on high ground or under tall trees.
Who acts: Lightning · What happens: kill · To what, where: people, water
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 | 2 kills | nsubj |
| 2 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kills | obj |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kills | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 water | punct |
| 7 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 outdoors | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 most | nmod |
| 10 | outdoors | outdoors | ADV | _ | 11 near | advmod |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kills | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ground | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ground | amod |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kills | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 trees | cc |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 19 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 trees | amod |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ground | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kills | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Lightning | people | water | year | on high ground or tall trees | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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:20.
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, 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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