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title: Volcanologists cannot give an exact date, but swelling ground, swarm… — Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes · tree and pragmatics
description: Volcanologists cannot give an exact date, but swelling ground, swarms of small quakes and changing gases often give enough warning to move people away. Who acts: Volcanologists, ground. A sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» of the geography course of Mova's primary sc
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# Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 4

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Volcanologists cannot give an exact date, but swelling ground, swarms of small quakes and changing gases often give enough warning to move people away.

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**Who acts:** Volcanologists, ground · **What happens:** not give, swell, change, give, move away · **To what, where:** exact date, gases, enough warning, people

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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 (Volcanologists, ground), 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:4
# text = Volcanologists cannot give an exact date, but swelling ground, swarms of small quakes and changing gases often give enough warning to move people away.
# 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): no change
1	Volcanologists	volcanologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
10	swelling	swell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	amod	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	swarms	swarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	quakes	quake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
19	gases	gas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **give** | can | Volcanologists | a exact date |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Theme |
| 2 | **swell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **change** | gerund | ground and swarms of small quakes *not said here* | gases |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | present | ground and swarms of small quakes | enough warning |  |  |  | often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme |
| 5 | **move away** | to-infinitive | ground and swarms of small quakes *not said here* | people |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme people=Result |

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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): no change. **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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