--- title: An earthquake under the sea can lift the sea floor and push up a hug… — Volcanoes and earthquakes up close · tree and pragmatics description: An earthquake under the sea can lift the sea floor and push up a huge wave called a tsunami, which crosses the ocean as fast as a jet plane; if the sea suddenly pulls far back from the beach, people must run to high ground at once. Who acts: earthquake, huge wave, sea, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earthquake, huge wave, sea, people), 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:6 # text = An earthquake under the sea can lift the sea floor and push up a huge wave called a tsunami, which crosses the ocean as fast as a jet plane; if the sea suddenly pulls far back from the beach, people must run to high ground at once. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 under under ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tsunami tsunami NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 crosses cross VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl:relcl 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 as as ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 27 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 jet jet NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 plane plane NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 37 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 38 back back ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 44 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 at at ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 once once ADV RB _ 45 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | can | a earthquake under the sea | the sea floor | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Theme | | 2 | **push up** | infinitive | a earthquake under the sea *not said here* | a huge wave | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | | 3 | **call** | participle | a huge wave *not said here* | a tsunami | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tsunami=Recipient | | 4 | **cross** | present | a huge wave | the ocean | | | | fast *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient | | 5 | **pull** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the sea | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **run** | must | people | | | | | to high ground *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ground=Result | 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. **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:6`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/62-volcanoes-and-earthquakes/5/) - next →: [Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/62-volcanoes-and-earthquakes/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/62-volcanoes-and-earthquakes/)