--- title: The Coriolis effect is too weak to decide which way water drains fro… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics description: The Coriolis effect is too weak to decide which way water drains from a bath or a sink. Who acts: Coriolis effect, water. 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Winds, monsoons and ocean currents](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/) / 12 # Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 12 The Coriolis effect is too weak to decide which way water drains from a bath or a sink. **Who acts:** Coriolis effect, water · **What happens:** be, decide, drain · **To what, where:** way, bath · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Coriolis effect, water), 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:12 # text = The Coriolis effect is too weak to decide which way water drains from a bath or a sink. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Coriolis Coriolis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 9 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 10 det _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 drains drain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sink sink NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Coriolis effect | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **decide** | to-infinitive | the Coriolis effect *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **drain** | present | water | which way | | a bath or a sink | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme from bath=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](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:12`. **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. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/11/) - next →: [Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/)