Rain, floods and storms, sentence 9
Example: a boy in Houston, Texas, sees a road covered in brown water on the way home.
Who acts: boy · What happens: see, cover · To what, where: road, way
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 (boy), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sees | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Houston | case |
| 6 | Houston | Houston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Texas | punct |
| 8 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Houston | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
| 10 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sees | obj |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 road | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sees | obl |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 way | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | a boy in Houston | a road | the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | cover | participle | a road not said here | in brown water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in water=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:9.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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