Tsunamis, sentence 9
A tsunami is a train of several waves, minutes apart, and the first is often not the biggest.
Who acts: tsunami, first · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: train
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, first), 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 train | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 train | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 train | det |
| 5 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 waves | case |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 waves | amod |
| 8 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 train | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 minutes | punct |
| 10 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 waves | conj |
| 11 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 10 minutes | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 biggest | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 biggest | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 first | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 biggest | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 biggest | cop |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 biggest | advmod |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 biggest | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 biggest | det |
| 20 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 train | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 train | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a tsunami | a train | of several waves and minutes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | present | the first | big, often property | tree rules |
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:9.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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