--- title: Near the shore a tsunami slows down and piles up, sometimes over 10… — Tsunamis · tree and pragmatics description: Near the shore a tsunami slows down and piles up, sometimes over 10 metres high, and floods far inland. Who acts: 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Tsunamis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/) / 7 # Tsunamis, sentence 7 Near the shore a tsunami slows down and piles up, sometimes over 10 metres high, and floods far inland. **Who acts:** tsunami · **What happens:** slow down, pile up, flood · **To what, where:** shore, 10 metres 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 (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:7 # text = Near the shore a tsunami slows down and piles up, sometimes over 10 metres high, and floods far inland. # 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 ×2 1 Near near ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 tsunami tsunami NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 down down ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 piles pile VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 12 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 13 over over ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 floods flood VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 21 inland inland ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slow down** | present | a tsunami | | | the shore | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **pile up** | present | a tsunami *not said here* | 10 metres | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **flood** | present | a tsunami *not said here* | | | | | inland *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:7`. **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 ×2. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/6/) - next →: [Tsunamis, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/)