Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 11
"Heat lightning" is ordinary lightning too far away for its thunder to reach you; sound travels about one kilometre every three seconds.
Who acts: Heat lightning, thunder, sound, lightning · What happens: be, reach, travel, thunder · To what, where: ordinary lightning, you, one kilometre
This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths 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 (Heat lightning, thunder, sound, lightning), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lightning | punct |
| 2 | Heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lightning | compound |
| 3 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lightning | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lightning | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lightning | cop |
| 6 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lightning | amod |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 lightning | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 reach | mark |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 thunder | nmod:poss |
| 13 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reach | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 reach | mark |
| 15 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 away | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 reach | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 lightning | punct |
| 18 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 travels | nsubj |
| 19 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lightning | parataxis |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 kilometre | nummod |
| 22 | kilometre | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 travels | obl |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 seconds | det |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 seconds | nummod |
| 25 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 travels | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lightning | 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 | is a | present | Heat lightning | ordinary lightning | away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reach | to-infinitive | lightning's thunder | you | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | travel | present | sound | one kilometre | second | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | thunder | lightning | nom thunder «event intransitive»: poss=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:myths:015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson:11.
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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