Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 11

Because Earth spins, moving air and water are bent to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere, which is called the Coriolis effect.

Who acts: Earth · What happens: spin, move, bend, call · To what, where: air, right, southern hemisphere · 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 (Earth), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	3 spins	mark
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spins	nsubj
3	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bent	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moving	punct
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 spins	advcl
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moving	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 water	cc
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 air	conj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bent	aux:pass
10	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 right	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 right	det
13	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bent	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 hemisphere	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hemisphere	det
16	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hemisphere	amod
17	hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 right	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 left	cc
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 left	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 left	det
21	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hemisphere	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 hemisphere	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hemisphere	det
24	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hemisphere	amod
25	hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hemisphere	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 called	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 called	nsubj:pass
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 called	aux:pass
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 hemisphere	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 effect	det
31	Coriolis	Coriolis	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 effect	compound
32	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spin	present	Earth			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	move	gerund	Earth not said here	air and water		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent air=Theme
3	bend	present · passive			the right in the northern hemisphere in the southern hemisphere and the left	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: to right=Location
4	call	present · passive		the southern hemisphere		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:11.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

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