Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks, sentence 13
Lightning often strikes the same tall place again and again; the Empire State Building in New York is hit around twenty times a year.
Who acts: Lightning · What happens: strike, hit · To what, where: same tall place, State Building
This is a sentence of the lesson «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» 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 (Lightning), 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 | Lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strikes | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 strikes | advmod |
| 3 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 place | amod |
| 6 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 place | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strikes | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 strikes | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 again | cc |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 again | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 hit | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Building | det |
| 13 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 State | compound |
| 14 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Building | compound |
| 15 | Building | Building | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 York | case |
| 17 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 18 York | flat |
| 18 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Building | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hit | aux:pass |
| 20 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 strikes | parataxis |
| 21 | around | around | ADV | _ | 22 twenty | advmod |
| 22 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 times | nummod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hit | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 year | det |
| 25 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strikes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present | Lightning | the same tall place | again | often property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | ||
| 2 | hit | present · passive | the State Building in New York | time | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:13.
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, 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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