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title: In the middle latitudes, such as over Britain, the main winds blow f… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle latitudes, such as over Britain, the main winds blow from the west and are called the westerlies. Who acts: main winds. A sentence of the lesson «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 10

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In the middle latitudes, such as over Britain, the main winds blow from the west and are called the westerlies.

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**Who acts:** main winds · **What happens:** blow, call · **To what, where:** middle latitudes, westerlies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (main winds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:022-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents.lesson:10
# text = In the middle latitudes, such as over Britain, the main winds blow from the west and are called the westerlies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 022-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	latitudes	latitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	westerlies	westerly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | present | the main winds |  |  | the middle latitudes |  | from the west | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from west=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive | the main winds *not said here* | the westerlies |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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