Clouds, rain, snow and hail, sentence 1
It takes about a million cloud droplets joined together to make one raindrop heavy enough to fall.
What happens: take, join, make, fall · To what, where: vapour, million cloud droplets, one raindrop
This is a sentence of the lesson «Clouds, rain, snow and hail» 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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 takes | expl |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 million | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 million | det |
| 5 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 droplets | nummod |
| 6 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 droplets | compound |
| 7 | droplets | droplet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 takes | obj |
| 8 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 droplets | acl |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 joined | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 takes | advcl |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 raindrop | nummod |
| 13 | raindrop | raindrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 make | xcomp |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 14 heavy | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fall | mark |
| 17 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 heavy | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | vapour | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent droplet=Theme | |||||
| 2 | join | participle | million cloud droplets not said here | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | one raindrop | heavy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset raindrop=Product | ||||
| 4 | fall | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3 «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:067-clouds-rain-snow-hail.lesson:1.
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. 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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