Rain, floods and storms, sentence 3
Just 15 cm of moving water can knock a person off their feet, and 30 cm can float a car.
Who acts: 15 cm, 30 cm · What happens: move, knock, float · To what, where: person, 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 (15 cm, 30 cm), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 15 | advmod |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 cm | nummod |
| 3 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knock | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 water | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cm | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 knock | aux |
| 8 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knock | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knock | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 float | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 float | cc |
| 16 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 cm | nummod |
| 17 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 float | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 float | aux |
| 19 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 knock | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 car | det |
| 21 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 float | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knock | 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 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | knock | can | 15 cm of moving water | a person | off cm's feet | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent person=Patient off foot=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | float | can | 30 cm | a car | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
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:3.
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): R5-strong ×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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