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title: When the ground shook and the sea went out strangely in Japan, some… — Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: When the ground shook and the sea went out strangely in Japan, some people went to look at the beach; the tsunami came in minutes and many were swept away. Who acts: ground, sea, people, tsunami. A sentence of the lesson «Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons» of the everyday course of Mova's
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# Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons, sentence 23

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When the ground shook and the sea went out strangely in Japan, some people went to look at the beach; the tsunami came in minutes and many were swept away.

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**Who acts:** ground, sea, people, tsunami · **What happens:** shake, go out, go, look, come in, sweep away · **To what, where:** Japan, many

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons» 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 (ground, sea, people, tsunami), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:236-wind-fog-fire-and-seasons.lesson:23
# text = When the ground shook and the sea went out strangely in Japan, some people went to look at the beach; the tsunami came in minutes and many were swept away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 236-wind-fog-fire-and-seasons.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	strangely	strangely	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	swept	sweep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | the ground |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go out** | past | the sea |  |  | Japan |  | out, strangely *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | some people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | some people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the beach | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beach=Theme |
| 5 | **come in** | past | the tsunami |  |  |  | minute |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sweep away** | past · passive |  | many |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |

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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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**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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×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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