The water cycle, sentence 3
When the droplets join together and grow heavy, they fall as rain, snow or hail: this is called precipitation.
Who acts: droplets · What happens: join, grow, fall, call · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (droplets), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 join | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 droplets | det |
| 3 | droplets | droplet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 join | nsubj |
| 4 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fall | advcl |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 join | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grow | cc |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 join | conj |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grow | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fall | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fall | nsubj |
| 11 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 rain | case |
| 13 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fall | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 snow | punct |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rain | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 hail | cc |
| 17 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 snow | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fall | parataxis |
| 22 | precipitation | precipitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | present | the droplets | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | the droplets not said here | heavy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | present | droplets = droplet | as rain and snow or hail | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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