Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 4

The Coriolis effect is real, but it only steers huge things like hurricanes; a toilet bowl is far too small, so its swirl comes from the shape of the bowl and the way the water rushes in.

Who acts: Coriolis effect, effect, toilet bowl, swirl, water · What happens: be, steer, come, rush in · To what, where: huge things, shape, way

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, effect, toilet bowl, swirl), 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 steers	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 steers	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 steers	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 steers	advmod
10	steers	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 real	conj
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 steers	obj
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 hurricanes	case
14	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 things	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 small	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bowl	det
17	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bowl	compound
18	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 small	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 small	cop
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 small	advmod
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 small	advmod
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 real	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 comes	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 comes	advmod
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 swirl	nmod:poss
26	swirl	swirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 comes	nsubj
27	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 real	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 shape	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shape	det
30	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 comes	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 bowl	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bowl	det
33	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shape	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 way	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 way	det
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shape	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 water	det
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rushes	nsubj
39	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 way	acl:relcl
40	in	in	ADV	_	39 rushes	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 real	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Coriolis effect			real property	tree rules
2	steer	present	effect	huge things		like hurricanes	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	is	present	a toilet bowl			far, small property	tree rules
4	come	present	effect's swirl		the shape of the bowl and the way		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shape=Initial_Location
5	rush in	present	the water	the way not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory

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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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