Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 9
The trade winds blow steadily from the east towards the equator in the tropics, from the north-east in the northern hemisphere and the south-east in the southern.
Who acts: trade winds · What happens: blow · To what, where: east
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 (trade winds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 winds | det |
| 2 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 winds | compound |
| 3 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blow | nsubj |
| 4 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 4 blow | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 east | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 east | det |
| 8 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blow | obl |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 equator | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 equator | det |
| 11 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blow | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tropics | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tropics | det |
| 14 | tropics | tropic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blow | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 east | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 east | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 east | det |
| 18 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 east | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 north | punct |
| 20 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blow | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hemisphere | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hemisphere | det |
| 23 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hemisphere | amod |
| 24 | hemisphere | hemisphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 east | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 east | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 east | det |
| 27 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 east | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 south | punct |
| 29 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 east | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 southern | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 southern | det |
| 32 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blow | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | the trade winds | the east | towards the equator; in the tropics; from the north east in the northern hemisphere and the south east; in the southern; steadily property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards equator=Recipient in tropic=Topic |
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:9.
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. 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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