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title: If an earthquake at the coast is long or strong, go to high ground o… — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti,… · tree and pragmatics
description: If an earthquake at the coast is long or strong, go to high ground or inland at once, because a tsunami may follow within minutes. Who acts: earthquake, you, tsunami. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the everyday course of Mova's
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# Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 11

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If an earthquake at the coast is long or strong, go to high ground or inland at once, because a tsunami may follow within minutes.

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**Who acts:** earthquake, you, tsunami · **What happens:** be, go, follow · **To what, where:** high ground

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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, you, tsunami), 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:11
# text = If an earthquake at the coast is long or strong, go to high ground or inland at once, because a tsunami may follow 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	_	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
26	within	within	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a earthquake at the coast |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a earthquake at the coast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | high ground |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **follow** | may | a tsunami |  |  |  | minute |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:11`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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