Weather emergencies, sentence 5
A family in Texas drove through a flooded road; the water was deeper and faster than it looked, and their car floated away until rescuers reached them.
Who acts: family, water, road, car, rescuers · What happens: drive, flood, be, look, float away, reach · To what, where: flooded road, families
This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather emergencies» 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 (family, water, road, car), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 5 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 8 | flooded | flood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 road | amod |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drove | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 deeper | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deeper | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 deeper | cop |
| 14 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 drove | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 faster | cc |
| 16 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 deeper | conj |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 looked | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 deeper | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 floated | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 floated | cc |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 car | nmod:poss |
| 23 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 floated | nsubj |
| 24 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 deeper | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 floated | advmod |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 28 reached | mark |
| 27 | rescuers | rescuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 reached | nsubj |
| 28 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 floated | advcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 reached | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | a family in Texas | a flooded road | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through road=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | flood | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the water | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the water not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | look | past | road | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | float away | past | families's car | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | reach | past | rescuers | families = family | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=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:048-weather-emergencies.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. 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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