Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes, sentence 16
Most tornadoes last only minutes, but their winds can be faster than those of any hurricane.
Who acts: Most tornadoes, winds, kilometres · What happens: last, be, wind
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 (Most tornadoes, winds, kilometres), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 tornadoes | amod |
| 2 | tornadoes | tornado | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 last | nsubj |
| 3 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 minutes | advmod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 last | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 faster | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 faster | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 winds | nmod:poss |
| 9 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 faster | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 faster | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 faster | cop |
| 12 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 tornadoes | parataxis |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 those | case |
| 14 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 faster | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hurricane | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 hurricane | det |
| 17 | hurricane | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 those | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tornadoes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | present | Most tornadoes | minute | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | can | kilometres's winds | than those; fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wind | kilometres = kilometre | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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:16.
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): R5-strong ×3. 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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