Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, sentence 6

Sound travels about one kilometre every three seconds, so counting the seconds between a flash and its thunder tells you how far away the lightning is.

Who acts: Sound, thunder, lightning · What happens: travel, count, tell, be, thunder · To what, where: one kilometre, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» 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 (Sound, thunder, 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	Sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travels	nsubj
2	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kilometre	nummod
5	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travels	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 seconds	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 seconds	nummod
8	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travels	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 counting	punct
10	so	so	CCONJ	_	20 tells	cc
11	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 tells	csubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 seconds	det
13	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 counting	obj
14	between	between	ADP	_	16 flash	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 flash	det
16	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 counting	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tells	cc
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 thunder	nmod:poss
19	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tells	nsubj
20	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 travels	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tells	iobj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 far	advmod
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 away	advmod
24	away	away	ADV	_	27 is	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lightning	det
26	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 is	nsubj
27	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tells	ccomp
28	.	.	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	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	Sound	one kilometre		second		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	count	gerund				second	between a flash	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	present	Sound's thunder		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be	present	the lightning				away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	thunder		Sound					nom thunder «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:6.

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 ×3. 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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