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title: In 1755 an earthquake, a tsunami and fires destroyed much of Lisbon,… — Earthquakes · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1755 an earthquake, a tsunami and fires destroyed much of Lisbon, killing tens of thousands of people. Who acts: earthquake. A sentence of the lesson «Earthquakes» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Earthquakes, sentence 10

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In 1755 an earthquake, a tsunami and fires destroyed much of Lisbon, killing tens of thousands of people.

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**Who acts:** earthquake · **What happens:** destroy, kill · **To what, where:** much, tens

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Earthquakes» 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), 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:10
# text = In 1755 an earthquake, a tsunami and fires destroyed much of Lisbon, killing tens of thousands of people.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	1755	1755	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	fixed	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **destroy** | past | a earthquake | much of Lisbon |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 2 | **kill** | gerund | a earthquake *not said here* | tens of thousands of people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Theme |

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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:044-earthquakes.lesson:10`.

**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/).

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