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title: An earthquake under the sea can push up a huge wave called a tsunami… — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti,… · tree and pragmatics
description: An earthquake under the sea can push up a huge wave called a tsunami, which may reach the coast within minutes. Who acts: earthquake, huge wave. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 1

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An earthquake under the sea can push up a huge wave called a tsunami, which may reach the coast within minutes.

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**Who acts:** earthquake, huge wave · **What happens:** push up, call, reach · **To what, where:** huge wave, tsunami, coast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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 (earthquake, huge wave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:1
# text = An earthquake under the sea can push up a huge wave called a tsunami, which may reach the coast within minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	within	within	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **push up** | can | a earthquake under the sea | a huge wave |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme |
| 2 | **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 |
| 3 | **reach** | may | a huge wave | the coast |  |  | minute |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent coast=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:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:1`.

**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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