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title: A volcano erupts when magma, which is lighter than the solid rock ar… — Volcanoes and earthquakes up close · tree and pragmatics
description: A volcano erupts when magma, which is lighter than the solid rock around it and full of dissolved gas, rises into a chamber under the mountain; as it nears the surface the gas comes out of it in bubbles, like the gas in a shaken bottle of fizzy drink when the cap comes off. Who acts: volcano, magma,
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# Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 2

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A volcano erupts when magma, which is lighter than the solid rock around it and full of dissolved gas, rises into a chamber under the mountain; as it nears the surface the gas comes out of it in bubbles, like the gas in a shaken bottle of fizzy drink when the cap comes off.

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**Who acts:** volcano, magma, gas, cap · **What happens:** erupt, be, dissolve, rise, near, come out · **To what, where:** chamber, surface, magma, bubbles

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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 (volcano, magma, gas, cap), 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:2
# text = A volcano erupts when magma, which is lighter than the solid rock around it and full of dissolved gas, rises into a chamber under the mountain; as it nears the surface the gas comes out of it in bubbles, like the gas in a shaken bottle of fizzy drink when the cap comes off.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	erupts	erupt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
5	magma	magma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	nears	near	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	amod	_	_
50	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	57	advmod	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
58	off	off	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | present | a volcano |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | magma |  |  |  |  | than the solid rock around magma; light *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | magma *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of dissolved gas | tree rules |
| 4 | **dissolve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **rise** | present | magma |  |  | a chamber under the mountain |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **near** | present | magma | the surface |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come out** | present | the gas | magma |  | bubbles |  | like the gas in a shaken bottle of fizzy drink | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |
| 8 | **shake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **come off** | present | the cap |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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