--- title: A thermometer measures temperature, a barometer measures air pressur… — Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms · tree and pragmatics description: A thermometer measures temperature, a barometer measures air pressure, a rain gauge measures rainfall and a wind vane shows the direction of the wind. Who acts: thermometer, barometer, rain gauge, wind vane. A sentence of the lesson «Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms» of the world course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/17/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and st…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/) / 17 # Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms, sentence 17 A thermometer measures temperature, a barometer measures air pressure, a rain gauge measures rainfall and a wind vane shows the direction of the wind. **Who acts:** thermometer, barometer, rain gauge, wind vane · **What happens:** measure, show · **To what, where:** temperature, air pressure, rainfall, direction This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms» 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 (thermometer, barometer, rain gauge, wind vane), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:015-weather.lesson:17 # text = A thermometer measures temperature, a barometer measures air pressure, a rain gauge measures rainfall and a wind vane shows the direction of the wind. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 015-weather.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 thermometer thermometer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 measures measure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 barometer barometer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 measures measure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 gauge gauge NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 measures measure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 rainfall rainfall NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 vane vane NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **measure** | present | a thermometer | temperature | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme temperature=Value | | 2 | **measure** | present | a barometer | air pressure | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pressure=Value | | 3 | **measure** | present | a rain gauge | rainfall | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme rainfall=Value | | 4 | **show** | present | a wind vane | the direction of the wind | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Recipient | 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:world:015-weather.lesson:17`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and st…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/16/) - next →: [Climate zones, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/)