Weather, storms and the changing climate, sentence 12
A tropical cyclone has a calm, often clear centre called the eye, surrounded by a wall of the strongest winds; as the eye passes over, the storm goes quiet for a while, then the other side of the wall hits.
Who acts: tropical cyclone, clear centre, eye, storm, other side · What happens: have, call, surround, pass over, go, hit · To what, where: calm, eye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather, storms and the changing climate» 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 (tropical cyclone, clear centre, eye, storm), 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 | 3 cyclone | det |
| 2 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cyclone | amod |
| 3 | cyclone | cyclone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 centre | det |
| 6 | calm | calm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 centre | punct |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 clear | advmod |
| 9 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 centre | amod |
| 10 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calm | appos |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 centre | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eye | det |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 surrounded | punct |
| 15 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 calm | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 wall | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wall | det |
| 18 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 surrounded | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 winds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 winds | det |
| 21 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 winds | amod |
| 22 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wall | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 passes | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 passes | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eye | det |
| 26 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 passes | nsubj |
| 27 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 goes | advcl |
| 28 | over | over | ADV | _ | 27 passes | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 goes | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 storm | det |
| 31 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 goes | nsubj |
| 32 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 33 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 goes | xcomp |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 while | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 while | det |
| 36 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 goes | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 hits | punct |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 hits | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 side | det |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 side | amod |
| 41 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hits | nsubj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 wall | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 wall | det |
| 44 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 side | nmod |
| 45 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 goes | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a tropical cyclone | calm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a clear centre not said here | the eye | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eye=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | calm not said here | by a wall of the strongest winds | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass over | present | the eye | over property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | present | the storm | while | quiet property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | hit | present | the other side of the wall | then | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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:geography:023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.lesson:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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