Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 16

Each big ocean has huge circular currents called gyres, turning clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the southern, and floating rubbish such as plastic gets trapped in their calm middle.

Who acts: big ocean, huge circular currents · What happens: have, call, turn, float, trap · To what, where: huge circular currents, gyres, rubbish, calm middle · 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 (big ocean, huge circular currents), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ocean	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ocean	amod
3	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 currents	amod
6	circular	circular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 currents	amod
7	currents	current	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 currents	acl
9	gyres	gyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 called	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turning	punct
11	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 has	conj
12	clockwise	clockwise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 turning	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 hemisphere	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hemisphere	det
15	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hemisphere	amod
16	hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clockwise	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 southern	cc
18	anticlockwise	anticlockwise	ADV	_	21 southern	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 southern	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 southern	det
21	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 turning	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 floating	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 floating	cc
24	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 turning	conj
25	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 floating	obj
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rubbish	amod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 trapped	mark
28	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rubbish	nmod
29	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 trapped	aux:pass
30	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 floating	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 middle	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 middle	nmod:poss
33	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 middle	amod
34	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 trapped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	each big ocean	huge circular currents			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=Patient
2	call	participle	huge circular currents not said here	gyres			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	gerund	each big ocean not said here			clockwise property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	float	gerund	each big ocean not said here	rubbish plastic			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Agent
5	trap	present · passive	each big ocean not said here		currents's calm middle		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in middle=Destination

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:16.

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. 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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