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title: About three-quarters of the world's active volcanoes and most big ea… — Plate tectonics · tree and pragmatics
description: About three-quarters of the world's active volcanoes and most big earthquakes lie around the Pacific, in the Ring of Fire. Who acts: three quarters. A sentence of the lesson «Plate tectonics» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Plate tectonics, sentence 12

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About three-quarters of the world's active volcanoes and most big earthquakes lie around the Pacific, in the Ring of Fire.

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**Who acts:** three quarters · **What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** Pacific

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plate tectonics» 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 (three quarters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:042-plate-tectonics.lesson:12
# text = About three-quarters of the world's active volcanoes and most big earthquakes lie around the Pacific, in the Ring of Fire.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 042-plate-tectonics.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Ring	ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **lie** | present | three quarters of the world's active volcanoes and big earthquakes |  |  | the Pacific |  | in the Ring of Fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around pacific=Location |

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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:geography:042-plate-tectonics.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): R8-pos-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/).

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