Weather, storms and the changing climate, sentence 8
Real people of those centuries lived through colder winters, failed harvests and hurricanes that sank many Spanish treasure ships.
Who acts: Real people, hurricanes · What happens: live, fail, sink · To what, where: many Spanish treasure ships
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 (Real people, hurricanes), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 centuries | case |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 centuries | det |
| 5 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 people | nmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 winters | case |
| 8 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 winters | amod |
| 9 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 harvests | punct |
| 11 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 harvests | amod |
| 12 | harvests | harvest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 winters | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hurricanes | cc |
| 14 | hurricanes | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 winters | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sank | nsubj |
| 16 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurricanes | acl:relcl |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ships | amod |
| 18 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ships | amod |
| 19 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ships | compound |
| 20 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sank | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Real people of that centuries | winter | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fail | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sink | past | hurricanes | many Spanish treasure ships | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=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:geography:023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.lesson:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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