Tsunamis, sentence 1

In the deep ocean a tsunami races along as fast as a jet plane, yet it may be less than a metre high, so a ship can ride over it without noticing.

Who acts: tsunami, ship · What happens: race, be, ride, notice · To what, where: deep ocean, tsunami

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunamis» 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 (tsunami, ship), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 ocean	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ocean	det
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ocean	amod
4	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 races	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tsunami	det
6	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 races	nsubj
7	races	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	along	along	ADV	_	7 races	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 races	advmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 plane	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 plane	det
13	jet	jet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plane	compound
14	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fast	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 less	punct
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 less	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 less	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 less	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 less	cop
20	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 races	conj
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 metre	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 metre	det
23	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 high	obl
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 less	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ride	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 ride	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ship	det
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ride	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 ride	aux
30	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 less	conj
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ride	obl
33	without	without	SCONJ	_	34 noticing	mark
34	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 ride	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 races	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	race	present	a tsunami	the deep ocean	along, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Trajectory
2	is	may	tsunami		less property	tree rules
3	ride	can	a ship	tsunami		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Trajectory
4	notice	gerund	a ship not said here			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:045-tsunamis.lesson:1.

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, 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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