Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 14
The epicentre is the point on the surface directly above where an earthquake starts.
Who acts: epicentre, earthquake · What happens: be, start · To what, where: point, surface
This is a sentence of the lesson «Volcanoes and earthquakes up close» of the world 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 (epicentre, earthquake), 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 | 2 epicentre | det |
| 2 | epicentre | epicentre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 point | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 point | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 point | det |
| 5 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 surface | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 surface | det |
| 8 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 point | nmod |
| 9 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 10 above | advmod |
| 10 | above | above | ADV | _ | 8 surface | advmod |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 starts | advmod |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 earthquake | det |
| 13 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 starts | nsubj |
| 14 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 surface | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 point | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the epicentre | the point | the surface | tree rules | |||
| 2 | start | present | a earthquake | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:world:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.lesson:14.
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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