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title: In New Zealand children learn "Long or strong, get gone": if the sha… — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In New Zealand children learn "Long or strong, get gone": if the shaking is long or strong, go to high ground or inland at once, without waiting for a siren. Who acts: children, shaking. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the every
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# Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 2

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In New Zealand children learn "Long or strong, get gone": if the shaking is long or strong, go to high ground or inland at once, without waiting for a siren.

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**Who acts:** children, shaking · **What happens:** learn, get, be, go, wait · **To what, where:** New Zealand, high ground · **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 (children, shaking), 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:2
# text = In New Zealand children learn "Long or strong, get gone": if the shaking is long or strong, go to high ground or inland at once, without waiting for a siren.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	obj	_	_
12	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	siren	siren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | **learn** | present | children |  |  | New Zealand |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the shaking |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the shaking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | high ground |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a siren | vn exist-47.1 «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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**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): R6-punct-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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