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title: Tsunamis can also be caused by landslides, volcanic eruptions and, v… — Tsunamis · tree and pragmatics
description: Tsunamis can also be caused by landslides, volcanic eruptions and, very rarely, meteorite impacts. Who acts: landslides. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunamis» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tsunamis, sentence 13

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Tsunamis can also be caused by landslides, volcanic eruptions and, very rarely, meteorite impacts.

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**Who acts:** landslides · **What happens:** cause · **To what, where:** Tsunamis

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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 (landslides), 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:13
# text = Tsunamis can also be caused by landslides, volcanic eruptions and, very rarely, meteorite impacts.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Tsunamis	tsunami	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	landslides	landslide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	impacts	impact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | can · passive | landslides and volcanic eruptions and meteorite impacts | Tsunamis |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |

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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:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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