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title: If an earthquake at the beach or on the coast is long or strong, go… — Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries… · tree and pragmatics
description: If an earthquake at the beach or on the coast is long or strong, go to high ground or inland at once, because a tsunami may come within minutes. Who acts: earthquake, you, tsunami. A sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the eve
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# Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 10

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

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

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, 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:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:10
# text = If an earthquake at the beach or on the coast is long or strong, go to high ground or inland at once, because a tsunami may come within minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	_	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
30	within	within	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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** | present | a earthquake at the beach or the coast |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a earthquake at the beach or 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 | **come** | may | a tsunami |  |  |  | minute |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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