Tsunamis, sentence 16

If the sea suddenly drains away or a strong earthquake is felt at the coast, the safe thing is to move to high ground or far inland at once.

Who acts: sea · What happens: drain away, feel, be, move · To what, where: strong earthquake, coast, safe thing, high ground

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 (sea), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 drains	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drains	nsubj
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 drains	advmod
5	drains	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thing	advcl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 drains	advmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 felt	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 earthquake	det
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 earthquake	amod
10	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 felt	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 felt	aux:pass
12	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 drains	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 coast	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coast	det
15	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 felt	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thing	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
18	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thing	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 move	mark
22	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thing	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ground	amod
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 move	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 inland	cc
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 inland	advmod
28	inland	inland	ADV	_	22 move	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 inland	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 thing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drain away a condition, not said to happen	present	the sea			away, suddenly property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
2	feel	present · passive		a strong earthquake	the coast		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at coast=Location
3	is a	present		the safe thing			tree rules
4	move	to-infinitive			high ground		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ground=Trajectory

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:16.

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): no change. 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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