Weather emergencies, sentence 15

Near the coast, a long or strong earthquake is a warning to go to high ground in case of a tsunami, a giant wave that an earthquake can cause.

Who acts: long earthquake, earthquake · What happens: be, go, cause · To what, where: warning, coast, case, giant wave

This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather emergencies» of the everyday 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 (long earthquake, earthquake), 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	Near	near	ADP	_	3 coast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coast	det
3	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 warning	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 coast	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 earthquake	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 earthquake	amod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 strong	cc
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 long	conj
9	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 warning	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 warning	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 warning	det
12	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 warning	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ground	amod
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 case	case
19	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 tsunami	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tsunami	det
22	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 case	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wave	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wave	det
25	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wave	amod
26	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tsunami	appos
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 cause	obj
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 earthquake	det
29	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cause	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 cause	aux
31	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wave	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 warning	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a long earthquake	a warning	the coast		tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive			case of a tsunami	to high ground	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location
3	cause	can	a earthquake	a giant wave			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition that=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, 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:everyday:048-weather-emergencies.lesson:15.

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): R5-strong ×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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