--- title: Big, complicated snowflakes are almost certainly all different, but… — Weather, lightning and storms · tree and pragmatics description: Big, complicated snowflakes are almost certainly all different, but very simple tiny crystals can look identical, and a scientist made matching ones in a lab. Who acts: Big complicated snowflakes, simple tiny crystals, scientist. A sentence of the lesson «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Weather, lightning and storms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/) / 14 # Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 14 Big, complicated snowflakes are almost certainly all different, but very simple tiny crystals can look identical, and a scientist made matching ones in a lab. **Who acts:** Big complicated snowflakes, simple tiny crystals, scientist · **What happens:** be, look, make, match · **To what, where:** matching ones, lab This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths 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 (Big complicated snowflakes, simple tiny crystals, scientist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson:14 # text = Big, complicated snowflakes are almost certainly all different, but very simple tiny crystals can look identical, and a scientist made matching ones in a lab. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 complicated complicated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 snowflakes snowflake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 almost almost ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 all all ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 9 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 crystals crystal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 18 identical identical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 matching match VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 lab lab NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Big complicated snowflakes | | | | | all, certainly, different *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | can | simple tiny crystals | | | | | identical *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | past | a scientist | matching ones | | a lab | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | | 4 | **match** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:myths:015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Weather, lightning and storms, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/13/) - next →: [Weather, lightning and storms, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/)