Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 4

Volcanologists cannot give an exact date, but swelling ground, swarms of small quakes and changing gases often give enough warning to move people away.

Who acts: Volcanologists, ground · What happens: not give, swell, change, give, move away · To what, where: exact date, gases, enough warning, people

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 (Volcanologists, ground), 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	Volcanologists	volcanologist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 date	det
6	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 date	amod
7	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 give	cc
10	swelling	swell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 give	amod
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swarms	punct
13	swarms	swarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ground	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 quakes	case
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 quakes	amod
16	quakes	quake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 swarms	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 changing	cc
18	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 swarms	conj
19	gases	gas	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 changing	obj
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 give	advmod
21	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
22	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 warning	amod
23	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 move	mark
25	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 warning	acl
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 move	obj
27	away	away	ADV	_	25 move	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not give	can	Volcanologists	a exact date		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Theme
2	swell	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	change	gerund	ground and swarms of small quakes not said here	gases		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Patient
4	give	present	ground and swarms of small quakes	enough warning	often property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme
5	move away	to-infinitive	ground and swarms of small quakes not said here	people	away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme people=Result

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:4.

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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