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title: Earthquakes start kilometres underground, and the weather has no eff… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics
description: Earthquakes start kilometres underground, and the weather has no effect on them; there is no such thing as "earthquake weather". Who acts: Earthquakes, weather, such thing. A sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 19

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Earthquakes start kilometres underground, and the weather has no effect on them; there is no such thing as "earthquake weather".

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**Who acts:** Earthquakes, weather, such thing · **What happens:** start, have, be · **To what, where:** kilometres, effect

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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 (Earthquakes, weather, such thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:19
# text = Earthquakes start kilometres underground, and the weather has no effect on them; there is no such thing as "earthquake weather".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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	Earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
23	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | Earthquakes | kilometres |  |  |  | underground *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | present | the weather | no effect |  |  |  | on Earthquakes *= earthquake* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | present | no such thing  earthquake weather |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 ×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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