Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 3

Imagine a farmer near Naples whose tomatoes grow huge in dark volcanic soil, while instruments on Vesuvius above his farm listen day and night for the small earthquakes that come before an eruption.

Who acts: you, tomatoes, instruments, small earthquakes · What happens: imagine, grow, listen, come · To what, where: farmer, Naples, eruption

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 (you, tomatoes, instruments, small earthquakes), 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	Imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imagine	obj
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 Naples	case
5	Naples	Naples	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 farmer	nmod
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 tomatoes	nmod:poss
7	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grow	nsubj
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 farmer	acl:relcl
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grow	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 soil	case
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 soil	amod
12	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 soil	amod
13	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 huge	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 listen	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 listen	mark
16	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 listen	nsubj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 Vesuvius	case
18	Vesuvius	Vesuvius	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 instruments	nmod
19	above	above	ADP	_	21 farm	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 farm	nmod:poss
21	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Vesuvius	nmod
22	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Imagine	parataxis
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 listen	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 night	cc
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 day	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 earthquakes	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 earthquakes	det
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 earthquakes	amod
29	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 listen	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 come	nsubj
31	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 earthquakes	acl:relcl
32	before	before	ADP	_	34 eruption	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 eruption	det
34	eruption	eruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Imagine	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	imperative	you not said here	a farmer	Naples			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot farmer=Theme
2	grow	present	tomatoes				huge property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	listen	present	instruments on Vesuvius above Vesuvius's farm			day	for the small earthquakes	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for earthquake=Theme
4	come	present	the small earthquakes		a eruption			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eruption=Location

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:3.

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): R6-punct-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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