Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 18
Near the equator lies a zone of weak, changing winds called the doldrums, where sailing ships could be stuck for days.
Who acts: zone, weak changing winds, sailing ships · What happens: lie, change, call, sail, be · To what, where: equator, doldrums · 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 (zone, weak changing winds, sailing ships), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 equator | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 equator | det |
| 3 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | obl |
| 4 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 zone | det |
| 6 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 winds | case |
| 8 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 winds | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 changing | punct |
| 10 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 winds | amod |
| 11 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 zone | nmod |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 winds | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 doldrums | det |
| 14 | doldrums | doldrums | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stuck | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 stuck | advmod |
| 17 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 ships | compound |
| 18 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stuck | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 stuck | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 stuck | cop |
| 21 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 doldrums | acl:relcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stuck | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a zone of weak changing winds | the equator | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near equator=Location | ||||
| 2 | change | gerund | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | weak changing winds not said here | the doldrums | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent doldrums=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | sail | gerund | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | could | sailing ships | day | stuck 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:18.
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 ×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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