Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★, sentence 6
If the gaps between flash and thunder grow shorter, say 15, then 9, then 3 seconds, the storm is coming closer.
Who acts: gaps, storm · What happens: grow, come
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» 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 (gaps, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 grow | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gaps | det |
| 3 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 flash | case |
| 5 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gaps | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thunder | cc |
| 7 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flash | conj |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 coming | advcl |
| 9 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 grow | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grow | punct |
| 11 | say | say | INTJ | _ | 15 9 | discourse |
| 12 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 9 | compound |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 9 | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 9 | advmod |
| 15 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 coming | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seconds | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 seconds | advmod |
| 18 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 seconds | nummod |
| 19 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seconds | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 storm | det |
| 22 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 coming | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 coming | aux |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 25 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 coming | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow a condition, not said to happen | present | the gaps between flash and thunder | short property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | the storm | second | close property | 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:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.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): 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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