Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 7
Real ships could not do that: they sailed with the monsoon and often waited months in port for the wind to turn, and the way out and the way back across the Atlantic were different routes.
Who acts: Real ships, ships · What happens: not do, sail, wait, turn, be · To what, where: that, port, way different routes
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 (Real ships, 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ships | amod |
| 2 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 sailed | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sailed | nsubj |
| 9 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | parataxis |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 monsoon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 monsoon | det |
| 12 | monsoon | monsoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sailed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 waited | cc |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 waited | advmod |
| 15 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sailed | conj |
| 16 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 waited | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 port | case |
| 18 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waited | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 wind | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wind | det |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 port | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 turn | mark |
| 23 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 waited | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 out | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 out | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 out | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 do | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 routes | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 routes | compound |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 way | advmod |
| 33 | across | across | ADP | _ | 35 Atlantic | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Atlantic | det |
| 35 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 back | obl |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 routes | cop |
| 37 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 routes | amod |
| 38 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 out | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | could | Real ships | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sail | past | ships = ship | with the monsoon | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | ships = ship not said here | port for the wind | month | often property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in port=Location | ||
| 4 | turn | to-infinitive | ships = ship not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | Real ships not said here | way different routes | 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:7.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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