Wind and weather, sentence 14

A tornado is a column of air spinning very fast with very low pressure in its middle, and its winds can rip off roofs and lift cars.

Who acts: tornado, column, winds, air · What happens: be, spin, rip off, lift, wind · To what, where: column, roofs, cars

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind and weather» of the physics 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 (tornado, column, winds, air), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tornado	det
2	tornado	tornado	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 column	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 column	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 column	det
5	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 air	case
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 column	nmod
8	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 column	acl
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	_	8 spinning	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 pressure	case
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 low	advmod
13	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pressure	amod
14	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spinning	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 middle	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 middle	nmod:poss
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pressure	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rip	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rip	cc
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 winds	nmod:poss
21	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rip	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 rip	aux
23	rip	rip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 column	conj
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 rip	compound:prt
25	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rip	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lift	cc
27	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 rip	conj
28	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lift	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 column	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a tornado	a column	of air	tree rules
2	spin	gerund	a column not said here		with low pressure in air's middle; fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	rip off	can	air's winds	roofs		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient
4	lift	infinitive	air's winds not said here	cars		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme
5	wind		air			nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: 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:physics:015-wind-and-weather.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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