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title: Earthquake size is given by magnitude, and each step up means about… — Earthquakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Earthquake size is given by magnitude, and each step up means about 32 times more energy released. Who acts: magnitude, step. 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 8

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Earthquake size is given by magnitude, and each step up means about 32 times more energy released.

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**Who acts:** magnitude, step · **What happens:** give, mean, release · **To what, where:** Earthquake size, more energy

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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 (magnitude, step), 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:8
# text = Earthquake size is given by magnitude, and each step up means about 32 times more energy released.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	magnitude	magnitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **give** | present · passive | magnitude | Earthquake size |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | each step | more energy |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Topic |
| 3 | **release** | participle |  | more energy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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:8`.

**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): 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/).

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