Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 17
Thunder is the bang made when lightning heats the air extremely fast and the air expands suddenly; clouds do not bump together.
Who acts: Thunder, lightning, air, clouds · What happens: be, make, heat, expand, not bump · To what, where: bang, air
This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» 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 (Thunder, lightning, air, clouds), 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 | Thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bang | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bang | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bang | det |
| 4 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bang | acl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 heats | advmod |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heats | nsubj |
| 8 | heats | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heats | obj |
| 11 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 heats | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 expands | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 expands | nsubj |
| 16 | expands | expand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heats | conj |
| 17 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 expands | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 bump | punct |
| 19 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bump | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bump | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 bump | advmod |
| 22 | bump | bump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 expands | conj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 bump | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bang | 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 | Thunder | the bang | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the bang not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | heat | present | lightning | the air | fast property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient | |||
| 4 | expand | present | the air | suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not bump | present · do-support | clouds | together property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
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:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:17.
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): R8-pos-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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