Wind and the air around the Earth, sentence 2
The air is thickest near the ground and gets thinner the higher you go.
Who acts: air, you · What happens: be, get, go · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind and the air around the Earth» 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 (air, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thickest | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thickest | cop |
| 4 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thickest | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gets | cc |
| 9 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thickest | conj |
| 10 | thinner | thinner | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 gets | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 higher | det |
| 12 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 gets | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 higher | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thickest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the air | the ground | thick property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | present | the air not said here | thinner property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:069-wind-and-the-atmosphere.lesson:2.
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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