Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 4
That curving turns ocean currents into giant wheels called gyres.
Who acts: curving, giant wheels · What happens: turn, call · To what, where: ocean currents, giant wheels, gyres · 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 (curving, giant wheels), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 curving | det |
| 2 | curving | curve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 currents | compound |
| 5 | currents | current | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turns | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 wheels | case |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wheels | amod |
| 8 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turns | obl |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wheels | acl |
| 10 | gyres | gyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turns | 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 | turn | present | that curving | ocean currents | giant wheels | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent current=Theme into wheel=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | call | participle | giant wheels not said here | gyres | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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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