--- title: Shaking ground rarely kills anyone by itself; falling buildings do,… — Earthquakes · tree and pragmatics description: Shaking ground rarely kills anyone by itself; falling buildings do, so the best protection is buildings designed to bend and sway instead of crack. Who acts: Shaking ground, best protection. A sentence of the lesson «Earthquakes» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/3/) [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/) / 3 # Earthquakes, sentence 3 Shaking ground rarely kills anyone by itself; falling buildings do, so the best protection is buildings designed to bend and sway instead of crack. **Who acts:** Shaking ground, best protection · **What happens:** shake, kill, fall, be, design, bend · **To what, where:** anyone, buildings 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 ground, best protection), 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:3 # text = Shaking ground rarely kills anyone by itself; falling buildings do, so the best protection is buildings designed to bend and sway instead of crack. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ _ 2 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 amod _ _ 10 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ _ 19 designed design VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 bend bend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 sway sway VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 26 case _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake** | gerund | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **kill** | present | Shaking ground | anyone | | | | by ground; rarely *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | the best protection | buildings | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **design** | participle | | buildings *not said here* | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **bend** | to-infinitive | | | | | | instead crack | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sway** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/2/) - next →: [Earthquakes, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/)