Rain, floods and storms, sentence 10

The water looks only ankle deep, but his dad turns the car around, because nobody can see how deep or fast it really is.

Who acts: water, dad, nobody · What happens: look, turn around, see, be · To what, where: car · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rain, floods and storms» 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 (water, dad, nobody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 deep	advmod
5	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deep	obl:unmarked
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looks	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turns	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 turns	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dad	nmod:poss
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turns	nsubj
11	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 car	det
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turns	obj
14	around	around	ADV	_	11 turns	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 see	mark
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 see	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 turns	advcl
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 deep	advmod
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 see	ccomp
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 fast	cc
23	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 deep	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 deep	nsubj
25	really	really	ADV	_	21 deep	advmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 deep	cop
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	the water		deep property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	turn around	present	boy's dad	the car	around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent car=Theme
3	see	can	nobody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	water		deep property	tree rules
5	be		water not said here			tree rules

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:235-rain-floods-and-storms.lesson:10.

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): 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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