Volcanoes: how and where, sentence 12
The deadliest danger is a pyroclastic flow, an avalanche of hot gas, ash and rock racing downhill at over 100 km/h.
Who acts: deadliest danger, hot gas · What happens: be, race, avalanche · To what, where: pyroclastic flow, 100 km/h
This is a sentence of the lesson «Volcanoes: how and where» 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 (deadliest danger, hot gas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 danger | det |
| 2 | deadliest | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 danger | amod |
| 3 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flow | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 flow | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flow | det |
| 6 | pyroclastic | pyroclastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flow | amod |
| 7 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 avalanche | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 avalanche | det |
| 10 | avalanche | avalanche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flow | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gas | case |
| 12 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gas | amod |
| 13 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 avalanche | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ash | punct |
| 15 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gas | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ash | cc |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 racing | compound |
| 18 | racing | race | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 ash | conj |
| 19 | downhill | downhill | ADV | _ | 18 racing | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 km/h | case |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 22 100 | advmod |
| 22 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 km/h | nummod |
| 23 | km/h | km/h | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 racing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the deadliest danger | a pyroclastic flow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | race | gerund | the deadliest danger not said here | 100 km/h | downhill property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km/h=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | avalanche | hot gas and ash | nom avalanche «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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:046-volcanoes-how-and-where.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): 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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