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title: Tambora in Indonesia erupted in 1815, the largest eruption in record… — Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes · tree and pragmatics
description: Tambora in Indonesia erupted in 1815, the largest eruption in recorded history, killing tens of thousands of people. Who acts: Tambora. 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 o
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# Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 7

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Tambora in Indonesia erupted in 1815, the largest eruption in recorded history, killing tens of thousands of people.

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**Who acts:** Tambora · **What happens:** erupt, record, kill · **To what, where:** 1815, tens

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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 (Tambora), 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:7
# text = Tambora in Indonesia erupted in 1815, the largest eruption in recorded history, killing tens of thousands of people.
# 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
1	Tambora	Tambora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	erupted	erupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1815	1815	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **erupt** | past | Tambora in Indonesia |  |  | 1815 |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1815=Location |
| 2 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund | Tambora in Indonesia *not said here* | tens of thousands of people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=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. **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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