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title: A volcano's reach can be enormous: Krakatoa in 1883 was heard nearly… — Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: reach, Laki, Icelandic ash cloud. A sentence of the lesson «Famous erupti
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# Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** reach, Laki, Icelandic ash cloud · **What happens:** be, hear, poison, stop · **To what, where:** Krakatoa, animals, 1783-84, most flights, 2010

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» 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 (reach, Laki, Icelandic ash cloud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:047-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 047-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Krakatoa	krakatoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1883	1883	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
19	Laki	Laki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1783-84	1783-84	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
22	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Icelandic	icelandic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
36	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
37	flights	flight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	about	about	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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** | can | a volcano's reach |  |  |  |  | enormous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past · passive |  | Krakatoa in 1883 |  |  |  | away *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **poison** | participle | Laki | the animals of Iceland |  | 1783-84 |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
| 4 | **stop** | past | a Icelandic ash cloud | most flights |  | 2010 | week | in Europe | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality flight=Eventuality |

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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:047-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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