Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes, sentence 12
A hurricane spins because the air rushing in towards its middle is turned by the spinning of the Earth.
Who acts: hurricane, air, spinning · What happens: spin, rush, turn · To what, where: middle, air, Earth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes» 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 (hurricane, air, spinning), 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 hurricane | det |
| 2 | hurricane | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spins | nsubj |
| 3 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 turned | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 air | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 middle | case |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 middle | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 middle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rushing | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | aux:pass |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spins | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 spinning | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spinning | det |
| 16 | spinning | spin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl:agent |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Earth | det |
| 19 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 spinning | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | a hurricane | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rush | gerund | the air not said here | hurricane's middle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | turn | present · passive | the spinning of the Earth | the air | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spin | the Earth | nom spin «event transitive»: of=patient |
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:068-storms-and-wild-winds.lesson:12.
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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