Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 10
The Coriolis effect is real and makes hurricanes spin opposite ways in the north and south of the world, but it is far too weak to decide which way a sink or toilet drains.
Who acts: Coriolis effect, hurricanes, effect, sink · What happens: be, make, spin, decide, drain · To what, where: opposite ways, north, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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 (Coriolis effect, hurricanes, effect, sink), 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 effect | det |
| 2 | Coriolis | Coriolis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 effect | compound |
| 3 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 real | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 real | cop |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 makes | cc |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 real | conj |
| 8 | hurricanes | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spin | nsubj |
| 9 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 10 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ways | amod |
| 11 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spin | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 north | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 north | det |
| 14 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spin | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 south | cc |
| 16 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 north | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 north | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 weak | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 weak | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 weak | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 weak | cop |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 weak | advmod |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 weak | advmod |
| 26 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 real | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 decide | mark |
| 28 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 weak | advcl |
| 29 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 30 way | det |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 decide | obj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 sink | det |
| 32 | sink | sink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 drains | nsubj |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 toilet | cc |
| 34 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sink | conj |
| 35 | drains | drain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 decide | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 real | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Coriolis effect | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | the Coriolis effect not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spin | infinitive | hurricanes | opposite ways | the north of the world and south | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | present | effect | far, weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | decide | to-infinitive | effect not said here | which way | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | drain | present | a sink or toilet | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:10.
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 ×3. 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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