Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 18
Counting the seconds between flash and bang shows whether the storm is moving away: a longer gap means it is going away, a shorter gap means it is coming closer.
Who acts: Counting, storm, longer gap, gap, shorter gap · What happens: count, show, move away, mean, go away, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» 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 (Counting, storm, longer gap, gap), 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 | Counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 shows | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seconds | det |
| 3 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Counting | obj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 flash | case |
| 5 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seconds | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bang | cc |
| 7 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flash | conj |
| 8 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 moving | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 storm | det |
| 11 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moving | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 moving | aux |
| 13 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 shows | ccomp |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 moving | advmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gap | det |
| 17 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 gap | amod |
| 18 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | nsubj |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shows | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 going | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 means | ccomp |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 going | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 means | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 gap | det |
| 26 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 gap | amod |
| 27 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | nsubj |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 means | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 coming | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 coming | aux |
| 31 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 means | ccomp |
| 32 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 coming | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | second | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | show | present | Counting | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | move away | present · progressive | the storm | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | a longer gap | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go away | present · progressive | gap | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | a shorter gap | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | come | present · progressive | gap | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:18.
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 ×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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