Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 3
Because Earth spins, moving air and water do not go straight but curve, to the right in the north and to the left in the south.
Who acts: Earth, moving · What happens: spin, move, not go, curve · To what, where: air
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, moving), 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 | 11 go | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spins | punct |
| 5 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 go | csubj |
| 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 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 curve | cc |
| 14 | curve | curve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 right | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 right | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 right | det |
| 18 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 curve | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 north | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 north | det |
| 21 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 right | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 left | cc |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 left | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 left | det |
| 25 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 right | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 south | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 south | det |
| 28 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | Earth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move | gerund | air and water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent air=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not go | present · do-support | moving | straight property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | curve | infinitive | moving not said here | to the right in the north and the left in the south | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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:3.
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): no change. 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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