Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 11
Mount St Helens in the USA erupted in 1980 when its whole north side collapsed in a giant landslide and the blast burst out sideways.
Who acts: Mount Helens, whole north side, blast · What happens: erupt, collapse, burst out · To what, where: 1980, giant landslide
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 (Mount Helens, whole north side, blast), 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 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Helens | compound |
| 2 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mount | flat |
| 3 | Helens | Helens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 erupted | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 USA | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 USA | det |
| 6 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Helens | nmod |
| 7 | erupted | erupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1980 | case |
| 9 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 erupted | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 collapsed | advmod |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 side | nmod:poss |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 13 | north | north | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 collapsed | nsubj |
| 15 | collapsed | collapse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 erupted | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 landslide | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 landslide | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 landslide | amod |
| 19 | landslide | landslide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 collapsed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 burst | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 blast | det |
| 22 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burst | nsubj |
| 23 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 collapsed | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 burst | compound:prt |
| 25 | sideways | sideway | ADV | _ | 23 burst | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 erupted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erupt | past | Mount Helens in the USA | 1980 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1980=Location | ||||
| 2 | collapse | past | USA's whole north side | a giant landslide | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | burst out | past | the blast | sideway property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:11.
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, R7-rel-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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