Earthquakes, sentence 14

Britain has hundreds of small earthquakes a year, but almost all are too weak to feel.

Who acts: Britain, all · What happens: have, be, feel · To what, where: hundreds

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 (Britain, all), 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	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 earthquakes	case
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 earthquakes	amod
6	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 earthquakes	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weak	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 weak	cc
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 all	advmod
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 weak	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 weak	cop
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 weak	advmod
15	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 has	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 feel	mark
17	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 weak	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Britain	hundreds of small earthquakes a year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient
2	is	present	all		weak property	tree rules
3	feel	to-infinitive	all not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: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): R5-strong ×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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