Earthquakes, sentence 7
Earthquakes send out fast P waves that push and pull, slower S waves that shake side to side, and surface waves that do most damage; a machine called a seismograph records them.
Who acts: Earthquakes, fast P waves, slower S waves, surface waves, machine · What happens: send out, push, pull, shake, do, call · To what, where: fast P waves, side, most damage, seismograph, waves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Earthquakes, fast P waves, slower S waves, 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 | Earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 send | nsubj |
| 2 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 send | compound:prt |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 waves | amod |
| 5 | P | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waves | compound |
| 6 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 send | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 push | nsubj |
| 8 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 waves | acl:relcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pull | cc |
| 10 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 push | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 waves | punct |
| 12 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 waves | amod |
| 13 | S | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waves | compound |
| 14 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 waves | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 shake | nsubj |
| 16 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 waves | acl:relcl |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shake | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 waves | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 waves | cc |
| 22 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waves | compound |
| 23 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 waves | conj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 do | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 waves | acl:relcl |
| 26 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 damage | amod |
| 27 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 machine | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 machine | det |
| 30 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 records | nsubj |
| 31 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 machine | acl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 seismograph | det |
| 33 | seismograph | seismograph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 called | xcomp |
| 34 | records | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 send | parataxis |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 records | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 send | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | present | Earthquakes | fast P waves and slower S waves and surface waves | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push | present | fast P waves and slower S waves and surface waves | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pull | present | fast P waves and slower S waves and surface waves not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shake | present | slower S waves | side | side | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent side=Theme to side=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | do | present | surface waves | most damage | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | call | participle | a machine not said here | a seismograph | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | record | present | a machine | waves = wave | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:7.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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