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title: Mount St Helens in the USA erupted in 1980 when its whole north side… — Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Mount Helens, whole north side, blast. A sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» of the geography course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 11

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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.

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**Who acts:** Mount Helens, whole north side, blast · **What happens:** erupt, collapse, burst out · **To what, where:** 1980, giant landslide

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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 (Mount Helens, whole north side, blast), 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:11
# text = 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.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Helens	Helens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	erupted	erupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	collapsed	collapse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	landslide	landslide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	sideways	sideway	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **erupt** | past | Mount Helens in the USA |  |  | 1980 |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1980=Location |
| 2 | **collapse** | past | USA's whole north side |  |  | a giant landslide |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **burst out** | past | the blast |  |  |  |  | sideway *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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, 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.

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