--- title: In 2004 a girl on holiday in Thailand saw the sea suddenly pull far… — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti,… · tree and pragmatics description: In 2004 a girl on holiday in Thailand saw the sea suddenly pull far back; she remembered a school lesson about tsunamis, warned her family and the beach was cleared before the wave came. Who acts: girl, sea, wave. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, sea, 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:21 # text = In 2004 a girl on holiday in Thailand saw the sea suddenly pull far back; she remembered a school lesson about tsunamis, warned her family and the beach was cleared before the wave came. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2004 2004 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Thailand Thailand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 9 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 14 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 tsunamis tsunami NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 warned warn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 cleared clear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 33 before before SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | a girl on holiday in Thailand | | | 2004 | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **pull** | infinitive | the sea | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **remember** | past | sea | a school lesson | | | | about tsunamis | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme | | 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | sea *not said here* | sea's family | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient | | 5 | **clear** | past · passive | | the beach | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | | 6 | **come** | past | the wave | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. 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