Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 17

Cold currents such as the Humboldt Current off Peru and the Benguela Current off south-west Africa flow towards the equator along the western coasts of continents; they bring plenty of food for fish but little rain, so the shores beside them are often desert.

Who acts: Cold currents, currents, shores · What happens: flow, bring, be · To what, where: western coasts, plenty

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 (Cold currents, currents, shores), 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	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 currents	amod
2	currents	current	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 flow	nsubj
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	7 Current	case
4	as	as	ADP	_	3 such	fixed
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Current	det
6	Humboldt	Humboldt	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Current	compound
7	Current	Current	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 currents	nmod
8	off	off	ADP	_	9 Peru	case
9	Peru	Peru	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Current	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Current	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Current	det
12	Benguela	Benguela	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Current	compound
13	Current	Current	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Current	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	18 Africa	case
15	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Africa	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Africa	punct
17	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Africa	amod
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Current	nmod
19	flow	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	towards	towards	ADP	_	22 equator	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 equator	det
22	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flow	obl
23	along	along	ADP	_	26 coasts	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 coasts	det
25	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 coasts	amod
26	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 flow	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 continents	case
28	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 coasts	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 bring	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bring	nsubj
31	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 flow	parataxis
32	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bring	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 food	case
34	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 plenty	nmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 fish	case
36	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 food	nmod
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 rain	cc
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 rain	amod
39	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fish	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 shores	punct
41	so	so	ADV	_	43 shores	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 shores	det
43	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 desert	nsubj
44	beside	beside	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 shores	nmod
46	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 desert	cop
47	often	often	ADV	_	48 desert	advmod
48	desert	desert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flow	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 flow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flow	present	Cold currents such the Humboldt Current off Peru and the Benguela Current off south west Africa		the western coasts of continents	towards the equator	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along coast=Location
2	bring	present	currents = current	plenty of food for fish but little rain			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme
3	is	present	the shores beside currents			desert, often property	tree rules

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:17.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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