--- title: Rocks along a crack in the crust, a fault, want to slide past each o… — Earthquakes · tree and pragmatics description: Rocks along a crack in the crust, a fault, want to slide past each other but are stuck; the strain builds up for years until suddenly they slip, and the jolt shakes the ground: that is an earthquake. Who acts: Rocks, strain, jolt, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rocks, strain, jolt, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:044-earthquakes.lesson:0 # text = Rocks along a crack in the crust, a fault, want to slide past each other but are stuck; the strain builds up for years until suddenly they slip, and the jolt shakes the ground: that is an earthquake. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 044-earthquakes.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 Rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 2 along along ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 crust crust NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 12 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 slide slide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 past past ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 14 obl _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 fixed _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 strain strain NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 until until SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 slip slip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 jolt jolt NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 shakes shake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 : : PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 40 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 parataxis _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | Rocks along a crack in the crust and a fault | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **slide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rocks along a crack in the crust and a fault *not said here* | | | each | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past each=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | present | Rocks along a crack in the crust and a fault *not said here* | | | | | stuck *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **build up** | present | the strain | | | | year | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **slip** | present | Rocks *= rock* | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **shake** | present | the jolt | the ground | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ground=Patient | | 7 | **is a** | present | that | a earthquake | | | | | 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:044-earthquakes.lesson:0`. **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: [Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/16/) - next →: [Earthquakes, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/)