Tsunamis, sentence 5
A tsunami is a series of huge waves caused by something suddenly moving a lot of water, usually an undersea earthquake.
Who acts: tsunami · What happens: be, cause, move · To what, where: series, huge waves, lot
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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tsunami | det |
| 2 | tsunami | tsunami | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 series | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 series | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 series | det |
| 5 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 waves | case |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 waves | amod |
| 8 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 series | nmod |
| 9 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 waves | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 something | case |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 caused | obl:agent |
| 12 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 13 moving | advmod |
| 13 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 something | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lot | det |
| 15 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moving | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lot | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 earthquake | punct |
| 19 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 22 earthquake | advmod |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 earthquake | det |
| 21 | undersea | undersea | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 earthquake | amod |
| 22 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 series | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 series | 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 | is a | present | a tsunami | a series and a undersea earthquake | of huge waves | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cause | participle | huge waves not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | move | gerund | a lot of water | suddenly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=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:5.
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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