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title: The strongest earthquake ever recorded was in Chile in 1960, magnitu… — Earthquakes · tree and pragmatics
description: The strongest earthquake ever recorded was in Chile in 1960, magnitude about 9.5. Who acts: strongest earthquake. 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 9

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The strongest earthquake ever recorded was in Chile in 1960, magnitude about 9.5.

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**Who acts:** strongest earthquake · **What happens:** record, be · **To what, where:** strongest earthquake, Chile

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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 (strongest earthquake), 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:9
# text = The strongest earthquake ever recorded was in Chile in 1960, magnitude about 9.5.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Chile	Chile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	magnitude	magnitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
14	9.5	9.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **record** | participle |  | the strongest earthquake *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the strongest earthquake |  |  | Chile |  | in 1960 | 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:9`.

**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): 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/).

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