Earthquakes, sentence 2

The shaking spreads out as waves: fast P waves arrive first, slower S waves next, and rolling surface waves last, which do the most damage.

Who acts: shaking, fast P waves, rolling surface waves · What happens: spread out, arrive, roll, do · To what, where: most damage

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, fast P waves, rolling surface waves), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shaking	det
2	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spreads	nsubj
3	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 spreads	compound:prt
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 waves	case
6	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spreads	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 arrive	punct
8	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 waves	amod
9	P	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waves	compound
10	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 arrive	nsubj
11	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spreads	parataxis
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 arrive	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 waves	punct
14	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 waves	amod
15	S	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waves	compound
16	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 arrive	conj
17	next	next	ADV	_	16 waves	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 last	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 waves	cc
20	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 waves	amod
21	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 waves	compound
22	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 waves	conj
23	last	last	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 waves	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 do	nsubj
26	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 waves	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 damage	det
28	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 damage	amod
29	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 do	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spreads	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread out	present	the shaking		as waves	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arrive	present	fast P waves		first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roll	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	present	rolling surface waves	the most damage		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality

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:2.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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