Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 5

Example: on a beach in Florida, a boy counts 12 seconds from flash to bang — the lightning is about 4 kilometres away, close enough to strike, so his family leaves the beach.

Who acts: boy, lightning, family · What happens: count, be, strike, leave · To what, where: 4 kilometres, beach

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 (boy, lightning, family), 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	Example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Example	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 beach	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beach	det
5	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 counts	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Florida	case
7	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 beach	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beach	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 counts	nsubj
11	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Example	appos
12	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 seconds	nummod
13	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 counts	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 flash	case
15	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 counts	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 bang	case
17	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flash	nmod
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 kilometres	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lightning	det
20	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kilometres	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 kilometres	cop
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 4	advmod
23	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 kilometres	nummod
24	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 counts	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 kilometres	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 close	punct
27	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 kilometres	conj
28	enough	enough	ADV	_	27 close	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 strike	mark
30	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 close	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 leaves	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	35 leaves	advmod
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 family	nmod:poss
34	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 leaves	nsubj
35	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 counts	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 beach	det
37	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 leaves	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Example	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	a boy		second	from flash to bang; on a beach in Florida	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on beach=Theme
2	is a	present	the lightning	4 kilometres		away property	tree rules
3	be		the lightning not said here			enough property	tree rules
4	strike	to-infinitive	the lightning not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave	present	boy's family	the beach			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=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:5.

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 ×3, 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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