Earthquakes, sentence 11
Most earthquake deaths are caused by collapsing buildings, not by the shaking ground itself.
Who acts: shaking ground · What happens: cause, collapse · To what, where: Most earthquake deaths
This is a sentence of the lesson «Earthquakes» of the geography 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 (shaking ground), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 deaths | amod |
| 2 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deaths | compound |
| 3 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 caused | aux:pass |
| 5 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 buildings | case |
| 7 | collapsing | collapse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 buildings | amod |
| 8 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caused | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ground | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 ground | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 13 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ground | compound |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caused | obl |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 14 ground | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present · passive | the shaking ground ground | Most earthquake deaths | by collapsing buildings | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | collapse | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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, 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:geography:044-earthquakes.lesson:11.
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): 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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