Earthquakes, sentence 8
Earthquake size is given by magnitude, and each step up means about 32 times more energy released.
Who acts: magnitude, step · What happens: give, mean, release · To what, where: Earthquake size, more energy
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 (magnitude, step), 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 | Earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 size | compound |
| 2 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 magnitude | case |
| 6 | magnitude | magnitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 means | cc |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 step | det |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | nsubj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 step | compound:prt |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 32 | advmod |
| 14 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 times | nummod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 more | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 energy | amod |
| 17 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obj |
| 18 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 energy | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | magnitude | Earthquake size | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | each step | more energy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Topic | ||||
| 3 | release | participle | more energy not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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:8.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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