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title: Near the coast, a long or strong earthquake can be followed by a tsu… — Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the coast, a long or strong earthquake can be followed by a tsunami within minutes. Who acts: tsunami. A sentence of the lesson «Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons, sentence 6

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Near the coast, a long or strong earthquake can be followed by a tsunami within minutes.

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**Who acts:** tsunami · **What happens:** follow · **To what, where:** long earthquake, coast

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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 (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:6
# text = Near the coast, a long or strong earthquake can be followed by a tsunami within minutes.
# 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 ×1
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **follow** | can · passive | a tsunami | a long earthquake |  | the coast | minute |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme near coast=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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**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: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. **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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