Rain, floods and storms, sentence 22
Before a hurricane or cyclone, bring in loose garden things, pack an emergency kit and follow evacuation orders, because strong winds turn loose objects into missiles and storm surges flood coasts.
Who acts: you, strong winds, storm surges · What happens: bring in, pack, follow, turn, flood · To what, where: loose garden things, emergency kit, evacuation orders, loose objects, missiles, coasts
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 (you, strong winds, storm surges), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 hurricane | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hurricane | det |
| 3 | hurricane | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 cyclone | cc |
| 5 | cyclone | cyclone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurricane | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurricane | punct |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 bring | compound:prt |
| 9 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 things | compound |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bring | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pack | punct |
| 13 | pack | pack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | conj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 kit | det |
| 15 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kit | compound |
| 16 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pack | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 follow | cc |
| 18 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | conj |
| 19 | evacuation | evacuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 orders | compound |
| 20 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 follow | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turn | punct |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 turn | mark |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 winds | amod |
| 24 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 turn | nsubj |
| 25 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | advcl |
| 26 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 objects | amod |
| 27 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 turn | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 missiles | case |
| 29 | missiles | missile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 turn | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 flood | cc |
| 31 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 surges | compound |
| 32 | surges | surge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flood | nsubj |
| 33 | flood | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 turn | conj |
| 34 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flood | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in | imperative | you not said here | loose garden things | before a hurricane or cyclone | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Asset | |||
| 2 | pack | infinitive | you not said here | a emergency kit | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme kit=Destination | ||||
| 3 | follow | infinitive | you not said here | evacuation orders | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | present | strong winds | loose objects | missiles | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent object=Theme into missile=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | flood | present | storm surges | coasts | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coast=Patient |
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:22.
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. 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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