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title: Near the coast, a long or strong earthquake is a warning to go to hi… — Weather emergencies · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the coast, a long or strong earthquake is a warning to go to high ground in case of a tsunami, a giant wave that an earthquake can cause. Who acts: long earthquake, earthquake. A sentence of the lesson «Weather emergencies» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Weather emergencies, sentence 15

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Near the coast, a long or strong earthquake is a warning to go to high ground in case of a tsunami, a giant wave that an earthquake can cause.

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**Who acts:** long earthquake, earthquake · **What happens:** be, go, cause · **To what, where:** warning, coast, case, giant wave

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather emergencies» 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 (long earthquake, earthquake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:048-weather-emergencies.lesson:15
# text = Near the coast, a long or strong earthquake is a warning to go to high ground in case of a tsunami, a giant wave that an earthquake can cause.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 048-weather-emergencies.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	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is a** | present | a long earthquake | a warning |  | the coast |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | case of a tsunami |  | to high ground | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **cause** | can | a earthquake | a giant wave |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition that=Patient |

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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:048-weather-emergencies.lesson:15`.

**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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