Weather signs and the 30-30 rule, sentence 8
Tall, dark, towering thunderclouds can bring lightning, heavy rain, hail and strong wind.
Who acts: Tall dark towering thunderclouds · What happens: tower, bring · To what, where: 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 (Tall dark towering thunderclouds), 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 | Tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thunderclouds | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dark | punct |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thunderclouds | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 towering | punct |
| 5 | towering | tower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thunderclouds | amod |
| 6 | thunderclouds | thundercloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rain | punct |
| 11 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rain | amod |
| 12 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lightning | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hail | punct |
| 14 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rain | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wind | cc |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wind | amod |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hail | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tower | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | bring | can | Tall dark towering thunderclouds | lightning and heavy rain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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:8.
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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