--- title: Some earthquake waves (S waves) cannot pass through liquid, and the… — Inside the Earth · tree and pragmatics description: Some earthquake waves (S waves) cannot pass through liquid, and the way they vanish on the far side of the Earth showed that the outer core is liquid. Who acts: earthquake waves, waves, way, outer core. A sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/12/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Inside the Earth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/) / 12 # Inside the Earth, sentence 12 Some earthquake waves (S waves) cannot pass through liquid, and the way they vanish on the far side of the Earth showed that the outer core is liquid. **Who acts:** earthquake waves, waves, way, outer core · **What happens:** not pass, vanish, show, be · **To what, where:** liquid, way, far side · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» of the geography 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 waves, waves, way, outer core), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:041-inside-the-earth.lesson:12 # text = Some earthquake waves (S waves) cannot pass through liquid, and the way they vanish on the far side of the Earth showed that the outer core is liquid. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 041-inside-the-earth.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 5 S s X AFX _ 6 compound _ _ 6 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 vanish vanish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 core core NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 liquid liquid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 33 . . 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 | **not** **pass** | can | some earthquake waves | | | liquid | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through liquid=Location | | 2 | **vanish** | present | waves *= wave* | the way *not said here* | | the far side of the Earth | | | tree rules | | 3 | **show** | past | the way | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the outer core | | | | | liquid *property* | tree rules | 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:geography:041-inside-the-earth.lesson:12`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Inside the Earth, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/11/) - next →: [Inside the Earth, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/)