Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 5
Counting between a lightning flash and the thunder shows a storm moving away; most spiders are harmless; films use special effects.
Who acts: storm, most spiders, films · What happens: count, show, move away, be, use · To what, where: storm, special effects
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 (storm, most spiders, films), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 flash | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flash | det |
| 4 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flash | compound |
| 5 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Counting | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shows | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thunder | det |
| 8 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flash | conj |
| 9 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Counting | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 storm | det |
| 11 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shows | obj |
| 12 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 storm | acl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 moving | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 harmless | punct |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 spiders | amod |
| 16 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 harmless | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 harmless | cop |
| 18 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shows | parataxis |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 use | punct |
| 20 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 use | nsubj |
| 21 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 harmless | parataxis |
| 22 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 effects | amod |
| 23 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 use | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | between a lightning flash and the thunder | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | show | present | a storm | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent storm=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | move away | gerund | a storm not said here | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | most spiders | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | use | present | films | special effects | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
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:5.
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, 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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