Rain, floods and storms, sentence 19
Lightning hits tall objects and travels through water, metal, pipes and phone wires.
Who acts: Lightning · What happens: hit, travel · To what, where: tall objects, water
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 (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 | Lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hits | nsubj |
| 2 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 objects | amod |
| 4 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hits | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 travels | cc |
| 6 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hits | conj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travels | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 metal | punct |
| 10 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pipes | punct |
| 12 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 water | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wires | cc |
| 14 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wires | compound |
| 15 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pipes | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hits | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | present | Lightning | tall objects | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme object=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | Lightning not said here | water and metal and pipes and phone wires | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory |
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:19.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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