--- title: In an earthquake in California or New Zealand you drop to your hands… — Weather emergencies · tree and pragmatics description: In an earthquake in California or New Zealand you drop to your hands and knees, take cover under a strong table and hold on until the shaking stops; if you are by the sea and the shaking was long or strong, you go to high ground at once, because a tsunami may follow. Who acts: you, shaking, tsunami. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Weather emergencies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/) / 3 # Weather emergencies, sentence 3 In an earthquake in California or New Zealand you drop to your hands and knees, take cover under a strong table and hold on until the shaking stops; if you are by the sea and the shaking was long or strong, you go to high ground at once, because a tsunami may follow. **Who acts:** you, shaking, tsunami · **What happens:** drop, take, hold on, stop, be, go · **To what, where:** earthquake, cover, strong table, high ground 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 (you, shaking, tsunami), 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:3 # text = In an earthquake in California or New Zealand you drop to your hands and knees, take cover under a strong table and hold on until the shaking stops; if you are by the sea and the shaking was long or strong, you go to high ground at once, because a tsunami may follow. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 8 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 18 cover cover NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 under under ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 until until SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 shaking shaking NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 shaking shaking NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 50 at at ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 46 obl _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 because because SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 tsunami tsunami NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 56 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 advcl _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | you | | | a earthquake in California or New Zealand | | to your hands and knees | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent in earthquake=Destination to hand=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | cover | | a strong table | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | | 3 | **hold on** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | present | the shaking | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **does** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | by the sea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location | | 6 | **is** | past | the shaking | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | the shaking *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **go** | present | you | | | high ground | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial\_Location | | 9 | **follow** | may | a tsunami | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:048-weather-emergencies.lesson:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Weather emergencies, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/2/) - next →: [Weather emergencies, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/)