--- title: A tsunami is not one giant surfing wave: it is a series of huge wave… — Tsunamis · tree and pragmatics description: A tsunami is not one giant surfing wave: it is a series of huge waves made when something suddenly shoves a vast amount of sea water, usually the sea floor jerking up or down in an undersea earthquake. Who acts: tsunami, something, sea floor. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tsunami, something, sea floor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:045-tsunamis.lesson:0 # text = A tsunami is not one giant surfing wave: it is a series of huge waves made when something suddenly shoves a vast amount of sea water, usually the sea floor jerking up or down in an undersea earthquake. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 045-tsunamis.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tsunami tsunami NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 6 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 surfing surfing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 series series NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 nsubj _ _ 20 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 shoves shove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 usually usually ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 jerking jerk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 34 up up ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 down down ADV RB _ 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:conj 37 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 undersea undersea ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 40 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a tsunami | one giant surfing wave | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | tsunami | a series | | | | of huge waves | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | participle | | huge waves *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **shove** | present | something | a vast amount of sea water | | | | suddenly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme | | 5 | **jerk up** | gerund | the sea floor | | | a undersea earthquake | | usually *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **amount** | | | sea water | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:045-tsunamis.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/16/) - next →: [Tsunamis, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/)