Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 18
Nobody can yet predict the exact day of an earthquake, but strong buildings save many lives.
Who acts: Nobody, strong buildings · What happens: predict, save · To what, where: many lives
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 (Nobody, strong buildings), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 predict | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 predict | aux |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 predict | advmod |
| 4 | predict | predict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 predict | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 earthquake | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 earthquake | det |
| 10 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 save | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 save | cc |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 buildings | amod |
| 14 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 save | nsubj |
| 15 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 predict | conj |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lives | amod |
| 17 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 save | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 predict | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | predict | can | Nobody | yet; day | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | save | present | strong buildings | many lives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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:world:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.lesson:18.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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