When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 14

Lightning often strikes the same place, especially tall things; the Empire State Building, a very tall skyscraper in New York, is hit about 20 times a year.

Who acts: Lightning · What happens: strike, hit · To what, where: same place, Empire State Building

This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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 (Lightning), 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	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strikes	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 strikes	advmod
3	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strikes	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 things	punct
8	especially	especially	ADV	_	10 things	advmod
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 place	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 Building	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Building	det
13	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Building	compound
14	State	State	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Building	compound
15	Building	Building	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 hit	nsubj:pass
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 skyscraper	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 skyscraper	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 tall	advmod
19	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 skyscraper	amod
20	skyscraper	skyscraper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Building	appos
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 York	case
22	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 York	compound
23	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 skyscraper	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Building	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hit	aux:pass
26	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 strikes	parataxis
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 20	advmod
28	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 times	nummod
29	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hit	obl:unmarked
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 year	det
31	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 times	nmod:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 strikes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	present	Lightning	the same place and tall things				often property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
2	hit	present · passive		the Empire State Building			time		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:14.

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): R7-rel-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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