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title: Out in the deep ocean a tsunami is low, but in shallow water near th… — Volcanoes and earthquakes up close · tree and pragmatics
description: Out in the deep ocean a tsunami is low, but in shallow water near the coast it slows down and piles up into a huge wave. Who acts: tsunami. 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 
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# Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 21

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Out in the deep ocean a tsunami is low, but in shallow water near the coast it slows down and piles up into a huge wave.

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**Who acts:** tsunami · **What happens:** be, slow down, pile up · **To what, where:** deep ocean, shallow water, huge wave

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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 (tsunami), 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:21
# text = Out in the deep ocean a tsunami is low, but in shallow water near the coast it slows down and piles up into a huge wave.
# 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 ×2
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
22	piles	pile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a tsunami |  |  | the deep ocean |  | low *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slow down** | present | tsunami |  |  | shallow water near the coast |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **pile up** | present | tsunami *not said here* |  |  | a huge wave |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into wave=Destination |

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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:21`.

**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 ×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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