Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 6
A family in Colorado kept hiking up a peak when they heard thunder; lightning struck nearby and knocked a man in their group to the ground, and he needed hospital care.
Who acts: family, flash, lightning · What happens: keep, hike up, hear, strike, knock, need · To what, where: peak, thunder, man, group, hospital care
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 (family, flash, 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 | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Colorado | case |
| 4 | Colorado | Colorado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hiking | hike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 hiking | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 peak | det |
| 9 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hiking | obj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 heard | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hiking | advcl |
| 13 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 struck | punct |
| 15 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 struck | nsubj |
| 16 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | parataxis |
| 17 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 16 struck | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knocked | cc |
| 19 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 struck | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knocked | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 group | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 group | nmod:poss |
| 24 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 ground | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ground | det |
| 27 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knocked | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 needed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 needed | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 needed | nsubj |
| 31 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | conj |
| 32 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 care | compound |
| 33 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 needed | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a family in Colorado | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hike up | gerund | a family in Colorado not said here | a peak | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location peak=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | flash | thunder | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | lightning | nearby property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | knock | past | lightning not said here | a man | flash's group | to the ground | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent man=Theme to ground=Destination | ||
| 6 | need | past | Lightning | hospital care | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=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:6.
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): R6-punct-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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