Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 21
Out in the deep ocean a tsunami is low, but in shallow water near the coast it slows down and piles up into a huge wave.
Who acts: tsunami · What happens: be, slow down, pile up · To what, where: deep ocean, shallow water, huge wave
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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 5 ocean | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 ocean | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ocean | det |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ocean | amod |
| 5 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 low | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tsunami | det |
| 7 | tsunami | tsunami | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 low | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 low | cop |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 low | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 slows | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 water | amod |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slows | obl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 coast | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 coast | det |
| 17 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 water | nmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 slows | nsubj |
| 19 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 low | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 slows | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 piles | cc |
| 22 | piles | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 slows | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 piles | compound:prt |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 wave | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 wave | det |
| 26 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wave | amod |
| 27 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 piles | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 low | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a tsunami | the deep ocean | low property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | slow down | present | tsunami | shallow water near the coast | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pile up | present | tsunami not said here | a huge wave | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into wave=Destination |
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:21.
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 ×2. 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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