Earthquakes, sentence 5
An earthquake is the sudden shaking when rocks along a fault slip after strain has built up.
Who acts: earthquake, rocks, strain · What happens: be, slip, build up · To what, where: sudden shaking
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 (earthquake, rocks, strain), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 earthquake | det |
| 2 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaking | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shaking | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shaking | det |
| 5 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shaking | amod |
| 6 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 slip | advmod |
| 8 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 slip | nsubj |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 fault | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fault | det |
| 11 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slip | obl |
| 12 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shaking | advcl |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 built | mark |
| 14 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 built | aux |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 slip | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 built | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shaking | 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 | is a | present | a earthquake | the sudden shaking | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slip | present | rocks | along a fault | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | build up | present · perfect | strain | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:5.
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): no change. 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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