Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 7

A car with a metal roof protects you from lightning because the electricity flows around the outside metal shell to the ground; the tyres are too thin to matter.

Who acts: car, electricity, tyres · What happens: protect, flow, be, matter · To what, where: you, outside metal shell

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 (car, electricity, tyres), 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	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 protects	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 roof	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 roof	det
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roof	compound
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 car	nmod
7	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 protects	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 lightning	case
10	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 protects	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 flows	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 electricity	det
13	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flows	nsubj
14	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 protects	advcl
15	around	around	ADP	_	19 shell	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shell	det
17	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shell	amod
18	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shell	compound
19	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flows	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flows	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 thin	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tyres	det
25	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 thin	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 thin	cop
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 thin	advmod
28	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 protects	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 matter	mark
30	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 thin	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 protects	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	protect	present	a car with a metal roof	you		from lightning	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from lightning=Theme
2	flow	present	the electricity		the outside metal shell	to the ground	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around shell=Location
3	is	present	the tyres			thin property	tree rules
4	matter	to-infinitive	the tyres not said here				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:7.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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