Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels, sentence 6
Counting the seconds between lightning and thunder and dividing by three gives roughly how many kilometres away the storm is.
Who acts: Counting, storm · What happens: count, divide, give, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels» 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 (Counting, storm), 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 | Counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 gives | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seconds | det |
| 3 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Counting | obj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 lightning | case |
| 5 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seconds | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thunder | cc |
| 7 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lightning | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dividing | cc |
| 9 | dividing | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Counting | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 three | case |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 dividing | obl |
| 12 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 15 many | advmod |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kilometres | amod |
| 16 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 away | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 gives | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 storm | det |
| 19 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 away | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 away | cop |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gives | 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 | count | gerund | second | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | divide | gerund | by three | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by three=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | present | Counting | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the storm | many kilometres obl:unmarked; away property | tree rules |
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:018-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels.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 ×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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