Rain, floods and storms, sentence 27
Lightning often strikes tall things, so standing under a tree in a storm is dangerous.
Who acts: Lightning, standing · What happens: strike, stand, be · To what, where: tall things, tree
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, standing), 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 | 3 strikes | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 strikes | advmod |
| 3 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dangerous | parataxis |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 strikes | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dangerous | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 standing | advmod |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 dangerous | csubj |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 storm | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 storm | det |
| 14 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | obl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dangerous | cop |
| 16 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strikes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present | Lightning | tall things | often property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | a tree | in a storm | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | standing | dangerous property | 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:27.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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