Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes, sentence 3

In the middle of a hurricane is the eye, a calm area with light winds and often a clear sky, ringed by the strongest winds of all.

Who acts: middle · What happens: be, ring · To what, where: eye, clear sky

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 (middle), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eye	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hurricane	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hurricane	det
6	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eye	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eye	det
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 area	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 area	det
12	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 area	amod
13	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eye	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 winds	case
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 winds	compound
16	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 area	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sky	cc
18	often	often	ADV	_	21 sky	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sky	det
20	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sky	amod
21	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 winds	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ringed	punct
23	ringed	ring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sky	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 winds	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 winds	det
26	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 winds	amod
27	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ringed	obl:agent
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 winds	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 eye	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the middle of a hurricane	the eye and a calm area with light winds and a clear sky					tree rules
2	ring	participle		a clear sky not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:3.

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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