Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes, sentence 13
The eye in the middle of a hurricane is calm, and the strongest winds blow in the wall of cloud around it.
Who acts: eye, strongest winds · What happens: be, blow · To what, where: wall
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 (eye, strongest winds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eye | det |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calm | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 middle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eye | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hurricane | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hurricane | det |
| 8 | hurricane | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 middle | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 calm | cop |
| 10 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blow | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blow | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 winds | det |
| 14 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 winds | amod |
| 15 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blow | nsubj |
| 16 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 calm | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 wall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blow | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cloud | case |
| 21 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wall | nmod |
| 22 | around | around | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cloud | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 calm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the eye in the middle of a hurricane | calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blow | present | the strongest winds | the wall of cloud around hurricane | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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:13.
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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