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title: The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off… — Tsunamis · tree and pragmatics
description: The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra, killed about 230,000 people in 14 countries. Who acts: 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunamis» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Tsunamis, sentence 10

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The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra, killed about 230,000 people in 14 countries.

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**Who acts:** 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami · **What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** 230,000 people, 14 countries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunamis» 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 (2004 Indian Ocean tsunami), 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:10
# text = The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra, killed about 230,000 people in 14 countries.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	magnitude	magnitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	9.1	9.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	230,000	230,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **kill** | past | the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami | 230,000 people |  | 14 countries | after a magnitude earthquake off Sumatra |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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:045-tsunamis.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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