Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 10

The Laki eruption in Iceland in 1783-84 poured out poisonous gas that killed most of Iceland's livestock, and about a fifth of its people died in the famine that followed.

Who acts: Laki eruption, poisonous gas, fifth, famine · What happens: pour out, kill, die, follow · To what, where: poisonous gas, most

This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» 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 (Laki eruption, poisonous gas, fifth, famine), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eruption	det
2	Laki	Laki	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eruption	compound
3	eruption	eruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poured	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Iceland	case
5	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eruption	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1783-84	case
7	1783-84	1783-84	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 eruption	nmod
8	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 poured	compound:prt
10	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gas	amod
11	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poured	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 killed	nsubj
13	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gas	acl:relcl
14	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 killed	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 livestock	case
16	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 livestock	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Iceland	case
18	livestock	livestock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 most	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 died	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 died	cc
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 fifth	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fifth	det
23	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 people	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 people	nmod:poss
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fifth	nmod
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poured	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 famine	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 famine	det
30	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 followed	nsubj
32	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 famine	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 poured	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pour out	past	the Laki eruption in Iceland in 1783-84	poisonous gas		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Patient
2	kill	past	poisonous gas	most of Iceland's livestock		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme
3	die	past	a fifth of fifth's people		in the famine	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in famine=Attribute
4	follow	past	the famine			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:047-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes.lesson:10.

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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