Rain, floods and storms, sentence 26
Most people who die in floods are in cars or are walking through water; just a little fast water can sweep a car away.
Who acts: Most people, little fast water · What happens: die, be, walk, sweep away · To what, where: cars, water, car
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 (Most people, little fast water), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 are | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 die | nsubj |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 floods | case |
| 6 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 die | obl |
| 7 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cars | case |
| 9 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 are | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 walking | cc |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 walking | aux |
| 12 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 are | conj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walking | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sweep | punct |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 sweep | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 water | amod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 water | amod |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sweep | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sweep | aux |
| 22 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 are | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 car | det |
| 24 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sweep | obj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 sweep | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 are | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | Most people | in floods | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in flood=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | does | present | Most people | cars | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in car=Location | ||||
| 3 | walk | present · progressive | Most people not said here | water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | sweep away | can | a little fast water | a car | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=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:26.
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): no change. 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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