Weather, storms and the changing climate, sentence 20

El Niño is a pattern every few years in which the eastern tropical Pacific becomes unusually warm, changing weather around the world, for example bringing drought to Australia and floods to Peru.

Who acts: El, eastern tropical Pacific · What happens: be, become, change, bring · To what, where: pattern, weather, world, example, Australia

This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather, storms and the changing climate» 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 (El, eastern tropical Pacific), 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	El	El	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pattern	nsubj
2	Niño	Niño	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 El	flat
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pattern	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pattern	det
5	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 years	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pattern	obl:unmarked
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 becomes	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Pacific	det
12	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Pacific	amod
13	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Pacific	amod
14	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 becomes	nsubj
15	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 years	acl:relcl
16	unusually	unusually	ADV	_	17 warm	advmod
17	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 becomes	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 changing	punct
19	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 becomes	conj
20	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 changing	obj
21	around	around	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 weather	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bringing	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 example	fixed
26	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bringing	obl
27	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 changing	advcl
28	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bringing	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Australia	case
30	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 bringing	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 floods	cc
32	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bringing	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 Peru	case
34	Peru	Peru	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 bringing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pattern	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	El	a pattern			year		tree rules
2	become	present	the eastern tropical Pacific				in every few years	warm property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in which=Result
3	change	gerund	the eastern tropical Pacific not said here	weather		the world			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient
4	bring	gerund	the eastern tropical Pacific not said here	example	Australia			to Peru	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drought=Theme to australia=Destination

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:023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.lesson:20.

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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