Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 16
A tsunami is a series of huge waves, usually caused by an earthquake under the sea.
Who acts: tsunami · What happens: be, cause · To what, where: series, huge waves
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 (tsunami), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tsunami | det |
| 2 | tsunami | tsunami | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 series | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 series | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 series | det |
| 5 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 waves | case |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 waves | amod |
| 8 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 series | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caused | punct |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 caused | advmod |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 waves | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 earthquake | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 earthquake | det |
| 14 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | obl |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 earthquake | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 series | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a tsunami | a series | of huge waves | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cause | participle | huge waves not said here | by a earthquake under the sea; usually property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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:16.
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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