Tsunamis, sentence 12
Tsunami warning centres use earthquake sensors and pressure gauges on the sea floor to warn coasts.
Who acts: warning centres · What happens: use, warn · To what, where: earthquake sensors, sea floor, coasts
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 (warning centres), 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 | Tsunami | tsunami | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 warning | compound |
| 2 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 centres | compound |
| 3 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sensors | compound |
| 6 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gauges | cc |
| 8 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gauges | compound |
| 9 | gauges | gauge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sensors | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 floor | compound |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 warn | mark |
| 15 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | advcl |
| 16 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 warn | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | warning centres | earthquake sensors and pressure gauges | the sea floor | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient | |||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | warning centres not said here | coasts | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coast=Recipient |
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:12.
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. 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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