--- title: Imagine a farmer near Naples whose tomatoes grow huge in dark volcan… — Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: you, tomatoes, instruments, small earthquakes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tomatoes, instruments, small earthquakes), 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:3 # text = 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. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 near near ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Naples Naples PROPN NNP Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 volcanic volcanic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 16 instruments instrument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Vesuvius Vesuvius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 above above ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 listen listen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 earthquakes earthquake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 before before ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 eruption eruption NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | a farmer | | Naples | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot farmer=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | present | tomatoes | | | | | huge *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **listen** | present | instruments on Vesuvius above Vesuvius's farm | | | | day | for the small earthquakes | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for earthquake=Theme | | 4 | **come** | present | the small earthquakes | | | a eruption | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eruption=Location | 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:047-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes.lesson:3`. **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): R6-punct-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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