Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 3
Snow and ice also hide dangers from above and below: heavy snow and icicles can fall from roofs, snow piles can collapse, ice is slippery, and snowploughs push snow off the road into the piles by the kerb.
Who acts: Snow, heavy snow, snow piles, ice, snowploughs · What happens: hide, fall, collapse, be, push · To what, where: dangers, roofs, snow, piles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snow, ice and strong sun» 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 (Snow, heavy snow, snow piles, ice), 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 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ice | cc |
| 3 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snow | conj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 hide | advmod |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hide | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 above | case |
| 8 | above | above | ADV | _ | 5 hide | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 below | cc |
| 10 | below | below | ADV | _ | 8 above | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
| 12 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 snow | amod |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fall | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 icicles | cc |
| 15 | icicles | icicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 snow | conj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fall | aux |
| 17 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hide | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 roofs | case |
| 19 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fall | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 piles | punct |
| 21 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 piles | compound |
| 22 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 collapse | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 collapse | aux |
| 24 | collapse | collapse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fall | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 slippery | punct |
| 26 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 slippery | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 slippery | cop |
| 28 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fall | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 push | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 push | cc |
| 31 | snowploughs | snowplough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 push | nsubj |
| 32 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fall | conj |
| 33 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 push | obj |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 road | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 road | det |
| 36 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 push | obl |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 piles | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 piles | det |
| 39 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 push | obl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 kerb | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 kerb | det |
| 42 | kerb | kerb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 piles | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | Snow and ice | dangers | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent danger=Patient from above=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | fall | can | heavy snow and icicles | roofs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from roof=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | collapse | can | snow piles | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | ice | slippery property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | push | present | snowploughs | snow | the piles by the kerb | off the road | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent snow=Theme off road=Initial_Location into pile=Destination |
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:234-snow-ice-and-sun.lesson:3.
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 ×2. 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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