Tsunamis, sentence 11
In 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake sent a tsunami into Japan that killed about 18,000 people and damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Who acts: magnitude earthquake, tsunami · What happens: send, kill, damage · To what, where: tsunami, 2011, 18,000 people, Fukushima nuclear plant
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 (magnitude earthquake, tsunami), 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 | _ | 2 2011 | case |
| 2 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 sent | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 earthquake | det |
| 4 | magnitude | magnitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 earthquake | compound |
| 5 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 magnitude | flat |
| 6 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tsunami | det |
| 9 | tsunami | tsunami | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 Japan | case |
| 11 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tsunami | acl:relcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 18,000 | advmod |
| 15 | 18,000 | 18,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 people | nummod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 damaged | cc |
| 18 | damaged | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 plant | det |
| 20 | Fukushima | Fukushima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 plant | compound |
| 21 | nuclear | nuclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plant | amod |
| 22 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 damaged | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | 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 | send | past | a magnitude earthquake | a tsunami | 2011 | into Japan | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tsunami=Theme in 2011=Destination | ||
| 2 | kill | past | a tsunami | 18,000 people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 3 | damage | past | a tsunami not said here | the Fukushima nuclear plant | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:045-tsunamis.lesson:11.
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 ×2. 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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