Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 13

Small raindrops are round, and bigger ones are flattened at the bottom like a burger bun as they fall; none is shaped like a teardrop.

Who acts: Small raindrops, raindrops · What happens: be, flatten, fall, shape · To what, where: bigger ones, bottom, none

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 (Small raindrops, raindrops), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 raindrops	amod
2	raindrops	raindrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 round	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 round	cop
4	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flattened	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flattened	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flattened	cc
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flattened	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flattened	aux:pass
10	flattened	flatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 bottom	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bottom	det
13	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flattened	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 bun	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bun	det
16	burger	burger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bun	compound
17	bun	bun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bottom	nmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 fall	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fall	nsubj
20	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flattened	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 shaped	punct
22	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 shaped	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 shaped	aux:pass
24	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 flattened	conj
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 teardrop	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 teardrop	det
27	teardrop	teardrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shaped	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 round	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Small raindrops			round property	tree rules
2	flatten	present · passive		bigger ones	the bottom like a burger bun		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	fall	present	raindrops = raindrop				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shape	present · passive		none		like a teardrop	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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:13.

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): R2-punct-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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