Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 3

Sound travels about one kilometre in three seconds, while the light of a flash arrives almost at once, so counting the seconds from flash to thunder and dividing by three tells you about how many kilometres away the storm is.

Who acts: Sound, light, counting · What happens: travel, arrive, count, divide, tell, light · To what, where: one kilometre, flash, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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 (Sound, light, counting), 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	Sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travels	nsubj
2	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kilometre	nummod
5	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travels	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 seconds	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 seconds	nummod
8	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travels	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 arrives	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 arrives	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 arrives	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 flash	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 flash	det
15	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 light	nmod
16	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 travels	advcl
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 once	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 arrives	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 counting	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	33 tells	advmod
22	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 tells	csubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 seconds	det
24	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 counting	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 flash	case
26	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 counting	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 thunder	case
28	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flash	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dividing	cc
30	dividing	divide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 counting	conj
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 three	case
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 dividing	obl
33	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 travels	advcl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 tells	iobj
35	about	about	ADP	_	38 kilometres	case
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 many	advmod
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 kilometres	amod
38	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tells	obl
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 kilometres	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 storm	det
41	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 away	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 kilometres	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travels	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	travel	present	Sound	one kilometre			second		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arrive	present	the light of a flash					once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	count	gerund				flash to thunder	second		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	divide	gerund						by three	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by three=Co-Theme
5	tell speech: assert	present	counting		you			about many kilometres	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about kilometre=Topic
6	light			a flash					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:3.

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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