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title: If the sea suddenly pulls back or there is a strong earthquake near… — Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: If the sea suddenly pulls back or there is a strong earthquake near the coast, people must go to high ground at once. Who acts: sea, strong earthquake, people. A sentence of the lesson «Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons, sentence 25

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If the sea suddenly pulls back or there is a strong earthquake near the coast, people must go to high ground at once.

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**Who acts:** sea, strong earthquake, people · **What happens:** pull back, be, go · **To what, where:** high ground

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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 (sea, strong earthquake, people), 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:25
# text = If the sea suddenly pulls back or there is a strong earthquake near the coast, people must go to high ground at once.
# 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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **pull back** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the sea |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | a strong earthquake near the coast |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | must | people |  |  | high ground |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial\_Location |

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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:236-wind-fog-fire-and-seasons.lesson:25`.

**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): no change. **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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