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title: A tsunami is a train of several waves, minutes apart, and the first… — Tsunamis · tree and pragmatics
description: A tsunami is a train of several waves, minutes apart, and the first is often not the biggest. Who acts: tsunami, first. 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 9

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A tsunami is a train of several waves, minutes apart, and the first is often not the biggest.

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**Who acts:** tsunami, first · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** train

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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 (tsunami, first), 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:9
# text = A tsunami is a train of several waves, minutes apart, and the first is often not the biggest.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a tsunami | a train |  |  |  | of several waves and minutes | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | the first |  |  |  |  | big, often *property* | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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): R2-punct-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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