Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 6
An earthquake under the sea can lift the sea floor and push up a huge wave called a tsunami, which crosses the ocean as fast as a jet plane; if the sea suddenly pulls far back from the beach, people must run to high ground at once.
Who acts: earthquake, huge wave, sea, people · What happens: lift, push up, call, cross, pull, run · To what, where: sea floor, huge wave, tsunami, ocean · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (earthquake, huge wave, sea, people), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 earthquake | det |
| 2 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lift | nsubj |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 earthquake | nmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 lift | aux |
| 7 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 floor | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 floor | compound |
| 10 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lift | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 push | cc |
| 12 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lift | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 push | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wave | det |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wave | amod |
| 16 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 push | obj |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wave | acl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tsunami | det |
| 19 | tsunami | tsunami | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crosses | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 crosses | nsubj |
| 22 | crosses | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wave | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ocean | det |
| 24 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crosses | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 fast | advmod |
| 26 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 crosses | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 plane | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 plane | det |
| 29 | jet | jet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 plane | compound |
| 30 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fast | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 pulls | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 pulls | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sea | det |
| 34 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pulls | nsubj |
| 35 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 36 pulls | advmod |
| 36 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 run | advcl |
| 37 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 back | advmod |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 pulls | advmod |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 beach | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 beach | det |
| 41 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 back | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 run | punct |
| 43 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 run | nsubj |
| 44 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 run | aux |
| 45 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lift | parataxis |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 ground | case |
| 47 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 ground | amod |
| 48 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 run | obl |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 once | case |
| 50 | once | once | ADV | _ | 45 run | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lift | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | can | a earthquake under the sea | the sea floor | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push up | infinitive | a earthquake under the sea not said here | a huge wave | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a huge wave not said here | a tsunami | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tsunami=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | cross | present | a huge wave | the ocean | fast property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient | |||
| 5 | pull a condition, not said to happen | present | the sea | suddenly property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run | must | people | to high ground result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ground=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:world:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.lesson:6.
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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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.
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