Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms, sentence 17
A thermometer measures temperature, a barometer measures air pressure, a rain gauge measures rainfall and a wind vane shows the direction of the wind.
Who acts: thermometer, barometer, rain gauge, wind vane · What happens: measure, show · To what, where: temperature, air pressure, rainfall, direction
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 (thermometer, barometer, rain gauge, wind vane), 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 thermometer | det |
| 2 | thermometer | thermometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 measures | nsubj |
| 3 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 measures | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 measures | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 barometer | det |
| 7 | barometer | barometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 measures | nsubj |
| 8 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 measures | conj |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pressure | compound |
| 10 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 measures | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 measures | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gauge | det |
| 13 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gauge | compound |
| 14 | gauge | gauge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 measures | nsubj |
| 15 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 measures | conj |
| 16 | rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 measures | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shows | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 vane | det |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vane | compound |
| 20 | vane | vane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shows | nsubj |
| 21 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 measures | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 direction | det |
| 23 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shows | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wind | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wind | det |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 direction | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 measures | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present | a thermometer | temperature | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme temperature=Value | ||||
| 2 | measure | present | a barometer | air pressure | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pressure=Value | ||||
| 3 | measure | present | a rain gauge | rainfall | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme rainfall=Value | ||||
| 4 | show | present | a wind vane | the direction of the wind | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=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:015-weather.lesson:17.
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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