Campfires, cold nights and rivers, sentence 6

Example: in Victoria, Australia, a family on a cold camping night sleeps in hats and dry layers on foam mats, because the cold ground pulls heat out of a body much faster than the air does.

Who acts: family, cold ground · What happens: sleep, pull · To what, where: Victoria, heat, body

This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» 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, cold ground), 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	_	4 Victoria	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Victoria	case
4	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sleeps	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Australia	punct
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Victoria	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 family	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 family	det
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sleeps	nsubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	14 night	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 night	det
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 night	amod
13	camping	camping	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 night	compound
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 family	nmod
15	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Example	appos
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 hats	case
17	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sleeps	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 layers	cc
19	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 layers	amod
20	layers	layer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hats	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 mats	case
22	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mats	compound
23	mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 layers	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sleeps	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 pulls	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
27	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ground	amod
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pulls	nsubj
29	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sleeps	advcl
30	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pulls	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 body	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 body	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 body	det
34	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pulls	obl
35	much	much	ADV	_	36 faster	advmod
36	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 pulls	advmod
37	than	than	SCONJ	_	40 does	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 air	det
39	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 does	nsubj
40	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 faster	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Example	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	a family on a cold camping night			Victoria and Australia		in hats and dry layers on foam mats	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in victoria=Location
2	pull	present	the cold ground	heat		a body		fast property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent heat=Theme out body=Initial_Location

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:231-campfires-and-rivers.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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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