Hiking and the outdoors, sentence 11
Three loud blasts on a whistle, then a pause, again and again, is a signal that means you need help.
Who acts: Three loud blasts, signal, you · What happens: be, mean, need · To what, where: signal, help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiking and the outdoors» 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 (Three loud blasts, signal, you), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 blasts | nummod |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blasts | amod |
| 3 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 signal | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 whistle | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 whistle | det |
| 6 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blasts | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pause | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 pause | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pause | det |
| 10 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whistle | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 again | punct |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 blasts | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 again | cc |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 again | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 signal | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 signal | det |
| 18 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 means | nsubj |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 signal | acl:relcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 need | nsubj |
| 22 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 means | ccomp |
| 23 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 need | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 signal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Three loud blasts on a whistle and a pause | a signal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | a signal | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | need | present | you | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:047-hiking-and-the-outdoors.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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