Tsunamis, sentence 14
About 8,000 years ago an underwater landslide off Norway, the Storegga Slide, sent a tsunami onto Scotland and the low land of Doggerland, now under the North Sea.
Who acts: underwater landslide · What happens: send · To what, where: tsunami, Scotland
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 (underwater landslide), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 8,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 8,000 | 8,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 sent | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 landslide | det |
| 6 | underwater | underwater | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 landslide | amod |
| 7 | landslide | landslide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 Norway | case |
| 9 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 landslide | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Slide | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Slide | det |
| 12 | Storegga | Storegga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Slide | compound |
| 13 | Slide | slide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Norway | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 landslide | punct |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tsunami | det |
| 17 | tsunami | tsunami | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obj |
| 18 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 19 Scotland | case |
| 19 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 land | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 land | det |
| 22 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 land | amod |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Scotland | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Doggerland | case |
| 25 | Doggerland | Doggerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 land | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Sea | punct |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 Sea | advmod |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 31 Sea | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sea | det |
| 30 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Sea | compound |
| 31 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | a underwater landslide off Norway | a tsunami | Scotland and the low land of Doggerland | under the North Sea; ago property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsunami=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:045-tsunamis.lesson:14.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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.
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