Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels, sentence 8
Thunder rumbles because sound from different parts of the long lightning bolt reaches you at different times.
Who acts: Thunder, sound · What happens: rumble, reach · To what, where: you
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 (Thunder, sound), 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 | Thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rumbles | nsubj |
| 2 | rumbles | rumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 reaches | mark |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reaches | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 parts | case |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 parts | amod |
| 7 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sound | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bolt | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bolt | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bolt | amod |
| 11 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bolt | compound |
| 12 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parts | nmod |
| 13 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rumbles | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 reaches | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 times | case |
| 16 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 times | amod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 reaches | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rumbles | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rumble | present | Thunder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | present | sound from different parts of the long lightning bolt | you | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent you=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:018-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels.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): 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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