Wind and weather, sentence 8
A barometer measures air pressure, and a falling barometer warns that bad weather may be coming.
Who acts: barometer, falling barometer, bad weather · What happens: measure, fall, warn, come · To what, where: air pressure · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (barometer, falling barometer, bad weather), 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 barometer | det |
| 2 | barometer | barometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 measures | nsubj |
| 3 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pressure | compound |
| 5 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 measures | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 warns | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 warns | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 barometer | det |
| 9 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 barometer | amod |
| 10 | barometer | barometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warns | nsubj |
| 11 | warns | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 measures | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 coming | mark |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 weather | amod |
| 14 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coming | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 coming | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 coming | aux |
| 17 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 warns | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 measures | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present | a barometer | air pressure | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pressure=Value | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | present | a falling barometer | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come | may · progressive | bad weather | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:physics:015-wind-and-weather.lesson:8.
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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