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title: Earthquake-proof buildings use steel frames, flexible joints and eve… — Earthquakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Earthquake-proof buildings use steel frames, flexible joints and even rubber or sliding bases to soak up shaking. Who acts: proof buildings. 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 12

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Earthquake-proof buildings use steel frames, flexible joints and even rubber or sliding bases to soak up shaking.

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**Who acts:** proof buildings · **What happens:** use, slide, soak up · **To what, where:** steel frames, bases, shaking

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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 (proof buildings), 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:12
# text = Earthquake-proof buildings use steel frames, flexible joints and even rubber or sliding bases to soak up shaking.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Earthquake	Earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	proof	proof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	frames	frame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	flexible	flexible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
15	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	bases	basis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	soak	soak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	shaking	shake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **use** | present | proof buildings | steel frames and flexible joints and rubber |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frame=Patient |
| 2 | **slide** | gerund | proof buildings *not said here* | bases |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basis=Agent |
| 3 | **soak up** | to-infinitive | proof buildings *not said here* | shaking |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent shake=Source |

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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: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): R1-cc-next ×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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