--- title: Because Earth spins, moving air and water are bent to the right in t… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics description: Because Earth spins, moving air and water are bent to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere, which is called the Coriolis effect. Who acts: Earth. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Earth), 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:11 # text = Because Earth spins, moving air and water are bent to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere, which is called the Coriolis effect. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 3 mark _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:cop 10 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hemisphere hemisphere NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 hemisphere hemisphere NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Coriolis Coriolis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | present | Earth | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **move** | gerund | Earth *not said here* | air and water | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 3 | **bend** | present · passive | | | | the right in the northern hemisphere in the southern hemisphere and the left | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: to right=Location | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | the southern hemisphere | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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](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:11`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/10/) - next →: [Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/)