--- title: Earthquakes send out fast P waves that push and pull, slower S waves… — Earthquakes · tree and pragmatics description: Earthquakes send out fast P waves that push and pull, slower S waves that shake side to side, and surface waves that do most damage; a machine called a seismograph records them. Who acts: Earthquakes, fast P waves, slower S waves, surface waves. A sentence of the lesson «Earthquakes» of the geograph --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/7/) [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/) / 7 # Earthquakes, sentence 7 Earthquakes send out fast P waves that push and pull, slower S waves that shake side to side, and surface waves that do most damage; a machine called a seismograph records them. **Who acts:** Earthquakes, fast P waves, slower S waves, surface waves, machine · **What happens:** send out, push, pull, shake, do, call · **To what, where:** fast P waves, side, most damage, seismograph, waves · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Earthquakes, fast P waves, slower S waves, 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:7 # text = Earthquakes send out fast P waves that push and pull, slower S waves that shake side to side, and surface waves that do most damage; a machine called a seismograph records them. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Earthquakes earthquake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 send send VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 P p NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 12 slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 13 S s NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 14 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 shake shake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 27 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 seismograph seismograph NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 xcomp _ _ 34 records record VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send out** | present | Earthquakes | fast P waves and slower S waves and surface waves | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | | 2 | **push** | present | fast P waves and slower S waves and surface waves | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pull** | present | fast P waves and slower S waves and surface waves *not said here* | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **shake** | present | slower S waves | side | | side | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent side=Theme to side=Trajectory | | 5 | **do** | present | surface waves | most damage | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality | | 6 | **call** | participle | a machine *not said here* | a seismograph | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **record** | present | a machine | waves *= wave* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:7`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/6/) - next →: [Earthquakes, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/)