Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows, sentence 23
About 15 cm (6 inches) of moving water can knock a person down, and about 30 cm (1 foot) can float a car.
Who acts: 15 cm, 30 cm · What happens: move, knock down, float · To what, where: person, car
This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 15 | advmod |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 cm | nummod |
| 3 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 knock | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 inches | punct |
| 5 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 inches | nummod |
| 6 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cm | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 inches | punct |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 moving | mark |
| 9 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cm | nmod |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 knock | aux |
| 12 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knock | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 knock | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 float | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 float | cc |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 30 | advmod |
| 19 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 cm | nummod |
| 20 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 float | nsubj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 foot | punct |
| 22 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 foot | nummod |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cm | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 foot | punct |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 float | aux |
| 26 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knock | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 car | det |
| 28 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 float | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 knock | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 down | can | 15 cm moving water | a person | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent person=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:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:23.
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, R7-rel-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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