Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms, sentence 14
Lightning is a giant electric spark; thunder is the sound of the air it heats suddenly bursting outward.
Who acts: Lightning, thunder · What happens: be, heat, burst · To what, where: giant electric spark, sound, air
This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms» 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 (Lightning, thunder), 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 | 6 spark | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spark | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spark | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spark | amod |
| 5 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spark | amod |
| 6 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sound | punct |
| 8 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sound | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sound | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spark | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sound | nmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heats | nsubj |
| 16 | heats | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 air | acl:relcl |
| 17 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 18 bursting | advmod |
| 18 | bursting | burst | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 heats | advcl |
| 19 | outward | outward | ADV | _ | 18 bursting | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spark | 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 | is a | present | Lightning | a giant electric spark | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | thunder | the sound | of the air | tree rules | |||
| 3 | heat | present | thunder | the air not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument air=Patient | ||||
| 4 | burst | gerund | thunder not said here | outward, suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:world:015-weather.lesson:14.
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 ×2. 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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