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title: In AD 79 Vesuvius buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum… — Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes · tree and pragmatics
description: In AD 79 Vesuvius buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and pyroclastic flows. Who acts: Vesuvius. A sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 5

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In AD 79 Vesuvius buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and pyroclastic flows.

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**Who acts:** Vesuvius · **What happens:** bury · **To what, where:** Roman towns, AD

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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 (Vesuvius), 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:5
# text = In AD 79 Vesuvius buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and pyroclastic flows.
# 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 ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	79	79	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	Vesuvius	Vesuvius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Pompeii	Pompeii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Herculaneum	Herculaneum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
16	pyroclastic	pyroclastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod
17	flows	flow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **bury** | past | Vesuvius | the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum |  | AD |  | ash flows *obl* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent town=Theme in ad=Destination |

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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:5`.

**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 ×3. **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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