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title: One sign everyone near a coast should know: if the ground shakes and… — The sea, waves and swimming pools · tree and pragmatics
description: One sign everyone near a coast should know: if the ground shakes and then the sea suddenly pulls back far from the shore, a tsunami is coming. Who acts: everyone, ground, sea, tsunami. A sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# The sea, waves and swimming pools, sentence 2

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One sign everyone near a coast should know: if the ground shakes and then the sea suddenly pulls back far from the shore, a tsunami is coming.

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**Who acts:** everyone, ground, sea, tsunami · **What happens:** know, shake, pull back, come · **To what, where:** One sign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» of the everyday 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 (everyone, ground, sea, tsunami), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:233-sea-and-pools.lesson:2
# text = One sign everyone near a coast should know: if the ground shakes and then the sea suddenly pulls back far from the shore, a tsunami is coming.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 233-sea-and-pools.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×3
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nummod
2	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | should | everyone | One sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the ground |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **pull back** | present | the sea |  |  |  | then | from the shore; far, suddenly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from shore=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **come** | present · progressive | a tsunami |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:233-sea-and-pools.lesson:2`.

**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 ×3. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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