Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 10
In the middle latitudes, such as over Britain, the main winds blow from the west and are called the westerlies.
Who acts: main winds · What happens: blow, call · To what, where: middle latitudes, westerlies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» of the geography 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 (main winds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 latitudes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 latitudes | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 latitudes | amod |
| 4 | latitudes | latitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blow | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 latitudes | punct |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 Britain | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 Britain | case |
| 9 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 latitudes | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 latitudes | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 winds | det |
| 12 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 winds | amod |
| 13 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blow | nsubj |
| 14 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 west | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 west | det |
| 17 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blow | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 called | cc |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 blow | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 westerlies | det |
| 22 | westerlies | westerly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 called | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | the main winds | the middle latitudes | from the west | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from west=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the main winds not said here | the westerlies | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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, 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:geography:022-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.
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