--- title: In the deep ocean a tsunami races along as fast as a jet plane, yet… — Tsunamis · tree and pragmatics description: In the deep ocean a tsunami races along as fast as a jet plane, yet it may be less than a metre high, so a ship can ride over it without noticing. Who acts: tsunami, ship. 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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, ship), 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:1 # text = In the deep ocean a tsunami races along as fast as a jet plane, yet it may be less than a metre high, so a ship can ride over it without noticing. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 tsunami tsunami NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 races race VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 along along ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 jet jet NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 plane plane NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 24 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 31 over over ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 without without SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 noticing notice VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **race** | present | a tsunami | | | the deep ocean | | along, fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Trajectory | | 2 | **is** | may | tsunami | | | | | less *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **ride** | can | a ship | | | tsunami | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Trajectory | | 4 | **notice** | gerund | a ship *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:1`. **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 ×1, 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: [Tsunamis, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/0/) - next →: [Tsunamis, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/)