Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground, sentence 9
Light travels nearly a million times faster than sound, which is why you see lightning before you hear thunder.
Who acts: Light, you · What happens: travel, be, see, hear · To what, where: lightning, thunder
This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» 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 (Light, you), 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 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travels | nsubj |
| 2 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 million | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 million | det |
| 5 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 faster | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 travels | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 sound | case |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 faster | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 travels | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 why | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 why | cop |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 travels | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 why | advcl:relcl |
| 16 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 hear | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 hear | nsubj |
| 19 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | advcl |
| 20 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hear | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travels | 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 | travel | present | Light | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | present | you | lightning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lightning=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear | present | you | thunder | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=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:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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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