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title: Nobody can yet say on which day an earthquake will strike, but scien… — Earthquakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody can yet say on which day an earthquake will strike, but scientists can map where the risk is high and how strong the quakes there can be. Who acts: Nobody, earthquake, scientists, risk. A sentence of the lesson «Earthquakes» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Earthquakes, sentence 4

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Nobody can yet say on which day an earthquake will strike, but scientists can map where the risk is high and how strong the quakes there can be.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, earthquake, scientists, risk, quakes · **What happens:** say, strike, map, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nobody, earthquake, scientists, risk), 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:4
# text = Nobody can yet say on which day an earthquake will strike, but scientists can map where the risk is high and how strong the quakes there can be.
# 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	map	map	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
24	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	quakes	quake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | Nobody |  |  |  | yet; day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **strike** | future | a earthquake |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **map** | can | scientists |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the risk |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | can | the quakes |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |

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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:4`.

**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/).

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