Satellites and GPS, sentence 13
Weather satellites photograph clouds and measure temperatures, which helps forecasters predict storms days ahead.
Who acts: Weather satellites, forecasters · What happens: photograph, measure, help, predict · To what, where: clouds, temperatures, forecasters, storms
This is a sentence of the lesson «Satellites and GPS» of the technology 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 (Weather satellites, forecasters), 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 | Weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 satellites | compound |
| 2 | satellites | satellite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 photograph | nsubj |
| 3 | photograph | photograph | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 photograph | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 measure | cc |
| 6 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 photograph | conj |
| 7 | temperatures | temperature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 measure | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 helps | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 helps | nsubj |
| 10 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 photograph | conj |
| 11 | forecasters | forecaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 helps | obj |
| 12 | predict | predict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 helps | xcomp |
| 13 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 predict | obj |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 predict | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 14 days | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 photograph | 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 | photograph | present | Weather satellites | clouds | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | ||||
| 2 | measure | present | Weather satellites not said here | temperatures | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme temperature=Value | ||||
| 3 | help | present | forecasters | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent forecaster=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | predict | present | forecasters not said here | storms | day | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot storm=Topic |
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:technology:038-satellites-and-gps.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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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