Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 9
Sheltering under a tree in a thunderstorm is dangerous, because tall trees attract lightning.
Who acts: Sheltering, tall trees · What happens: shelter, be, attract · To what, where: tree, lightning
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 (Sheltering, tall trees), 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 | Sheltering | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 dangerous | csubj |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sheltering | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 thunderstorm | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thunderstorm | det |
| 7 | thunderstorm | thunderstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sheltering | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dangerous | cop |
| 9 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 attract | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 attract | mark |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trees | amod |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 attract | nsubj |
| 14 | attract | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dangerous | advcl |
| 15 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attract | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shelter | gerund | a tree | in a thunderstorm | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Sheltering | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attract | present | tall trees | lightning | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lightning=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:myths:015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson:9.
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): no change. 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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