--- title: The shaking spreads out as waves: fast P waves arrive first, slower… — Earthquakes · tree and pragmatics description: The shaking spreads out as waves: fast P waves arrive first, slower S waves next, and rolling surface waves last, which do the most damage. Who acts: shaking, fast P waves, rolling surface waves. A sentence of the lesson «Earthquakes» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/2/) [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/) / [Earthquakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/) / 2 # Earthquakes, sentence 2 The shaking spreads out as waves: fast P waves arrive first, slower S waves next, and rolling surface waves last, which do the most damage. **Who acts:** shaking, fast P waves, rolling surface waves · **What happens:** spread out, arrive, roll, do · **To what, where:** most damage 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 (shaking, fast P waves, rolling surface waves), 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:2 # text = The shaking spreads out as waves: fast P waves arrive first, slower S waves next, and rolling surface waves last, which do the most damage. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shaking shaking NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 P p NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 arrive arrive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 15 S s NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 16 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 17 next next ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 rolling roll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 amod _ _ 21 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 23 last last ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 29 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread out** | present | the shaking | | | | | as waves | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **arrive** | present | fast P waves | | | | | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **roll** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | present | rolling surface waves | the most damage | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality | 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:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Earthquakes, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/1/) - next →: [Earthquakes, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/)