Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes, sentence 5

For example, when a hurricane comes ashore, its winds push the sea up into a wall of water called a storm surge, and this flooding is often more dangerous than the wind itself.

Who acts: hurricane, winds, water, flooding · What happens: come, push up, call, be, wind · To what, where: sea, wall, storm surge · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hurricane, winds, water, flooding), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 comes	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hurricane	det
6	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	7 comes	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 push	punct
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 winds	nmod:poss
11	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 push	nsubj
12	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 comes	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 push	obj
15	up	up	ADV	_	12 push	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 wall	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wall	det
18	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 push	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 water	case
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wall	nmod
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 water	acl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 surge	det
23	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 surge	compound
24	surge	surge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dangerous	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dangerous	cc
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 flooding	det
28	flooding	flooding	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dangerous	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 dangerous	cop
30	often	often	ADV	_	32 dangerous	advmod
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 dangerous	advmod
32	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 push	conj
33	than	than	ADP	_	35 wind	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wind	det
35	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dangerous	obl
36	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	35 wind	nmod:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 push	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	a hurricane			for example; ashore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	push up	present	hurricane's winds	the sea	a wall of water		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sea=Theme into wall=Destination
3	call	participle	water not said here	a storm surge			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	this flooding			than the wind hurricane; dangerous, often property	tree rules
5	wind		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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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