Mountains and highlands, sentence 5

Think of a car climbing a mountain road on holiday: the trees get smaller, the air gets colder, your ears pop, and at the top there may be snow in summer.

Who acts: you, car, trees, air, ears, snow · What happens: think, climb, get, pop, be · To what, where: mountain road, holiday, top · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains and highlands» of the geography 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 (you, car, trees, air), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 car	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
5	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 car	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 road	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 road	compound
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbing	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 holiday	case
10	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbing	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 get	nsubj
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	parataxis
15	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 get	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gets	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gets	nsubj
19	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	ccomp
20	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 gets	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pop	punct
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ears	nmod:poss
23	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pop	nsubj
24	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gets	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 top	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 top	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 top	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 top	det
29	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 be	obl
30	there	there	PRON	_	32 be	expl
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 be	aux
32	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 gets	conj
33	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 be	nsubj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 summer	case
35	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 be	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here				of a car	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	climb	gerund	a car not said here	a mountain road	holiday			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location road=Theme
3	get	present	the trees				small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	get	present	the air				cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	pop		your ears					tree rules
6	be	may	snow		the top; there	summer		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location

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:geography:017-mountains-and-highlands.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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