Rain, floods and storms, sentence 24
A family in Texas drove into a flooded road thinking it was shallow; the water swept the car off the road and they had to be rescued from the roof.
Who acts: family, road, water, families · What happens: drive, flood, think, be, sweep, have · To what, where: flooded road, car, road, roof · 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 (family, road, water, families), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 5 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 8 | flooded | flood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 road | amod |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drove | obl |
| 10 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 drove | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shallow | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shallow | cop |
| 13 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thinking | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 swept | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swept | nsubj |
| 17 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drove | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 car | det |
| 19 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swept | obj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 road | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 road | det |
| 22 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swept | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 swept | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 rescued | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 rescued | aux:pass |
| 28 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 had | xcomp |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 roof | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 roof | det |
| 31 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rescued | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | a family in Texas | a flooded road | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into road=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | flood | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | a family in Texas not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | road | shallow property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sweep | past | the water | the car | the road | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent car=Theme off road=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | have | past | families = family | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | rescue | to-infinitive · passive | families = family not said here | the roof | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: from roof=Source |
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.
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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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