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title: Nobody can yet predict the exact day of an earthquake, but strong bu… — Volcanoes and earthquakes up close · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody can yet predict the exact day of an earthquake, but strong buildings save many lives. Who acts: Nobody, strong buildings. A sentence of the lesson «Volcanoes and earthquakes up close» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 18

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Nobody can yet predict the exact day of an earthquake, but strong buildings save many lives.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, strong buildings · **What happens:** predict, save · **To what, where:** many lives

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Volcanoes and earthquakes up close» of the world 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 (Nobody, strong buildings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.lesson:18
# text = Nobody can yet predict the exact day of an earthquake, but strong buildings save many lives.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	predict	predict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
13	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **predict** | can | Nobody |  |  |  | yet; day |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **save** | present | strong buildings | many lives |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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**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:world:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.lesson:18`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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