Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 12
Big earthquakes, volcanoes and hurricanes happen in particular parts of the world; where you live the chance can be very small, and buildings in earthquake places are built specially.
Who acts: Big earthquakes, you, chance · What happens: happen, live, be, build · To what, where: particular parts, buildings
This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» of the adult life 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 earthquakes, you, chance), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 earthquakes | amod |
| 2 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 volcanoes | punct |
| 4 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 earthquakes | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hurricanes | cc |
| 6 | hurricanes | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 earthquakes | conj |
| 7 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 parts | case |
| 9 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 parts | amod |
| 10 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 happen | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 parts | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 live | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 live | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 live | nsubj |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 happen | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chance | det |
| 19 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 small | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 small | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 small | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 small | advmod |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 happen | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 built | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 buildings | cc |
| 26 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 built | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 places | case |
| 28 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 places | compound |
| 29 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 buildings | nmod |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 built | aux:pass |
| 31 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 small | conj |
| 32 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 31 built | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happen | punct |
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 | happen | present | Big earthquakes and volcanoes and hurricanes | particular parts of the world | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in part=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | can | the chance | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | build | present · passive | buildings in earthquake places | specially property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:adult-life:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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