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title: After Tambora, its ash and gas high in the sky cooled the climate, a… — Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes · tree and pragmatics
description: After Tambora, its ash and gas high in the sky cooled the climate, and 1816 became the "year without a summer" in Europe and North America, with snow in June and failed harvests. Who acts: ash, 1816. A sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» of the geography course of Mov
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# Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 8

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After Tambora, its ash and gas high in the sky cooled the climate, and 1816 became the "year without a summer" in Europe and North America, with snow in June and failed harvests.

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**Who acts:** ash, 1816 · **What happens:** cool, become, fail · **To what, where:** climate, year

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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 (ash, 1816), 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:8
# text = After Tambora, its ash and gas high in the sky cooled the climate, and 1816 became the "year without a summer" in Europe and North America, with snow in June and failed harvests.
# 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 ×2
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Tambora	Tambora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound
8	high	high	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
12	cooled	cool	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	1816	1816	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	harvests	harvest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **cool** | past | history's ash and gas and high | the climate |  |  | after Tambora |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent climate=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past | 1816 | the year without a summer in Europe and North America |  |  |  | with snow in June and failed harvests | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 ×2. **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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