Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes, sentence 18
A storm surge is sea water pushed onto the coast by a hurricane's winds.
Who acts: storm surge, hurricane · What happens: be, push, wind · To what, where: sea water, coast
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 (storm surge, hurricane), 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 | 3 surge | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surge | compound |
| 3 | surge | surge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 water | cop |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | compound |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 water | acl |
| 8 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 10 coast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coast | det |
| 10 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pushed | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 winds | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hurricane | det |
| 13 | hurricane | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 winds | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 hurricane | case |
| 15 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pushed | obl:agent |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 water | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a storm surge | sea water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | push | participle | sea water not said here | the coast | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent onto coast=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | wind | a hurricane | 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:18.
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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