Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 12
The Coriolis effect is too weak to decide which way water drains from a bath or a sink.
Who acts: Coriolis effect, water · What happens: be, decide, drain · To what, where: way, bath · 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 (Coriolis effect, water), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 effect | det |
| 2 | Coriolis | Coriolis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 effect | compound |
| 3 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weak | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 weak | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 weak | advmod |
| 6 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 decide | mark |
| 8 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 weak | advcl |
| 9 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drains | obl |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drains | nsubj |
| 12 | drains | drain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 decide | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 bath | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bath | det |
| 15 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drains | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 sink | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sink | det |
| 18 | sink | sink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bath | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 weak | 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 | is | present | the Coriolis effect | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decide | to-infinitive | the Coriolis effect not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | drain | present | water | which way | a bath or a sink | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme from bath=Source |
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:12.
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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