--- title: Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes», a lesson of the geography course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Some eruptions changed history: in AD 79 Vesuvius buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, and in 1815 Tambora threw so much ash and g --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/) [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/) / Famous eruptions and living with volca… # Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes Lesson 47 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/0/) — Some eruptions changed history: in AD 79 Vesuvius buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, and in 1815 Tambora threw so much ash and gas into the sky that the next year had no proper summer. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/1/) — A volcano's reach can be enormous: Krakatoa in 1883 was heard nearly 5,000 km away, Laki in 1783-84 poisoned the animals of Iceland, and in 2010 an Icelandic ash cloud stopped most flights in Europe for about a week. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/2/) — Yet millions of people live on volcanoes' slopes on purpose, because volcanic ash weathers into some of the richest farming soil on Earth, and the heat underground can warm homes and make electricity. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/3/) — Imagine a farmer near Naples whose tomatoes grow huge in dark volcanic soil, while instruments on Vesuvius above his farm listen day and night for the small earthquakes that come before an eruption. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/4/) — Volcanologists cannot give an exact date, but swelling ground, swarms of small quakes and changing gases often give enough warning to move people away. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/5/) — In AD 79 Vesuvius buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and pyroclastic flows. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/6/) — Pliny the Younger wrote an eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption, and tall ash-column eruptions are now called Plinian. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/7/) — Tambora in Indonesia erupted in 1815, the largest eruption in recorded history, killing tens of thousands of people. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/8/) — After Tambora, its ash and gas high in the sky cooled the climate, and 1816 became the "year without a summer" in Europe and North America, with snow in June and failed harvests. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/9/) — Krakatoa's eruption in 1883 was heard nearly 5,000 km away, and its tsunamis killed over 36,000 people. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/10/) — The Laki eruption in Iceland in 1783-84 poured out poisonous gas that killed most of Iceland's livestock, and about a fifth of its people died in the famine that followed. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/11/) — Mount St Helens in the USA erupted in 1980 when its whole north side collapsed in a giant landslide and the blast burst out sideways. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/12/) — People live near volcanoes because volcanic ash weathers into very fertile soil. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/13/) — Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with volcanic heat close to the surface, and it uses this heat to make electricity and to heat almost all its homes. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/14/) — Volcanologists watch for small earthquakes, swelling ground and changes in gas to warn when an eruption is coming. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/15/) — The 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland grounded most flights across Europe for about a week, because volcanic ash can melt inside jet engines and stop them. - ← previous: [Volcanoes: how and where](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/) - next →: [Igneous rocks and the rock cycle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/48-igneous-rocks-and-the-rock-cycle/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/)