Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes, sentence 15
A tornado is a narrow spinning column of air that reaches from a thunderstorm cloud down to the ground.
Who acts: tornado, air · What happens: spin, be, reach · To what, where: narrow spinning column, thunderstorm cloud
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 (tornado, air), 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 tornado | det |
| 2 | tornado | tornado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 column | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 column | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 column | det |
| 5 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 column | amod |
| 6 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 column | amod |
| 7 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 column | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 reaches | nsubj |
| 11 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 air | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 cloud | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cloud | det |
| 14 | thunderstorm | thunderstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cloud | compound |
| 15 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reaches | obl |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 reaches | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 down | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 column | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a tornado | a narrow spinning column | of air | tree rules | |||
| 3 | reach | present | air | a thunderstorm cloud | down property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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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