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title: Krakatoa's eruption in 1883 was heard nearly 5,000 km away, and its… — Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes · tree and pragmatics
description: Krakatoa's eruption in 1883 was heard nearly 5,000 km away, and its tsunamis killed over 36,000 people. Who acts: Krakatoa. 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 clau
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# Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 9

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Krakatoa's eruption in 1883 was heard nearly 5,000 km away, and its tsunamis killed over 36,000 people.

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**Who acts:** Krakatoa · **What happens:** hear, kill, erupt · **To what, where:** eruption, tsunamis

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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 (Krakatoa), 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:9
# text = Krakatoa's eruption in 1883 was heard nearly 5,000 km away, and its tsunamis killed over 36,000 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Krakatoa	krakatoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1883	1883	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tsunamis	tsunami	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	36,000	36,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **hear** | past · passive |  | Krakatoa's eruption in 1883 |  |  |  | away *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **kill** | past · passive |  | history's tsunamis |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer people=Result |
| 3 | **erupt** |  | Krakatoa |  |  |  |  |  | nom eruption «event intransitive»: poss=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): R8-pos-agree ×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.

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