Wind and weather, sentence 4
Weather forecasters watch the air pressure: high pressure usually means calm, settled days, low pressure means clouds, wind and rain.
Who acts: Weather forecasters, high pressure, low pressure · What happens: watch, mean, settle · To what, where: air pressure, clouds
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 (Weather forecasters, high pressure, low pressure), 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 | Weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forecasters | compound |
| 2 | forecasters | forecaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 watch | nsubj |
| 3 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pressure | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pressure | compound |
| 6 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watch | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 watch | punct |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pressure | amod |
| 9 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 watch | parataxis |
| 12 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 days | punct |
| 14 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 means | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
| 17 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pressure | amod |
| 18 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | nsubj |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | parataxis |
| 20 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 means | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wind | punct |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clouds | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rain | cc |
| 24 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wind | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watch | 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 | watch | present | Weather forecasters | the air pressure | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | high pressure | day | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | settle | participle | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | mean | present | low pressure | clouds and wind and rain | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Topic |
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:4.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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