The water cycle, sentence 10
A cloud is made of millions of tiny water drops, or of tiny ice crystals where it is very cold.
Who acts: vapour · What happens: make, be · To what, where: cloud
This is a sentence of the lesson «The water cycle» of the world 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 (vapour), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloud | det |
| 2 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 millions | case |
| 6 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 drops | case |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drops | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drops | compound |
| 10 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 millions | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crystals | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 crystals | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 crystals | case |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 crystals | amod |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crystals | compound |
| 16 | crystals | crystal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drops | conj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 cold | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cold | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cold | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 cold | advmod |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 crystals | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | a cloud | of millions of tiny water drops or tiny ice crystals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | present | vapour | cold property | tree rules |
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:world:014-the-water-cycle.lesson:10.
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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