Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks, sentence 3

Lightning is the same thing on a gigantic scale: ice and water bumping inside a storm cloud build huge charges that leap to the ground as a giant spark.

Who acts: Lightning, ice, huge charges · What happens: be, bump, build, leap · To what, where: same thing, gigantic scale, storm cloud, huge charges, ground

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, ice, huge charges), 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	5 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 scale	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 scale	det
8	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scale	amod
9	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 ice	punct
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 build	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 water	cc
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ice	conj
14	bumping	bump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 ice	acl
15	inside	inside	ADP	_	18 cloud	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cloud	det
17	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cloud	compound
18	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bumping	obl
19	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	parataxis
20	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 charges	amod
21	charges	charge	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 build	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 leap	nsubj
23	leap	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 charges	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leap	obl
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 spark	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 spark	det
29	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 spark	amod
30	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leap	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lightning	the same thing	a gigantic scale		tree rules
2	bump	gerund	ice and water not said here		a storm cloud		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
3	build	present	ice and water	huge charges			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset charge=Product
4	leap	present	huge charges		the ground	as a giant spark	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Destination

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:3.

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): no change. 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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