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title: The South Asian monsoon is a seasonal reversal of winds: in summer m… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics
description: The South Asian monsoon is a seasonal reversal of winds: in summer moist winds blow from the Indian Ocean onto India, and in winter dry winds blow out from the land. Who acts: Asian monsoon, moist winds, dry winds. A sentence of the lesson «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» of the geography course
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# Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 13

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The South Asian monsoon is a seasonal reversal of winds: in summer moist winds blow from the Indian Ocean onto India, and in winter dry winds blow out from the land.

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**Who acts:** Asian monsoon, moist winds, dry winds · **What happens:** be, blow, blow out · **To what, where:** seasonal reversal

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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 (Asian monsoon, moist winds, dry 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:13
# text = The South Asian monsoon is a seasonal reversal of winds: in summer moist winds blow from the Indian Ocean onto India, and in winter dry winds blow out from the land.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	South	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
3	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	reversal	reversal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
27	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Asian monsoon | a seasonal reversal |  |  |  | of winds | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | present | moist winds |  |  |  | summer | onto India; from the Indian Ocean | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from ocean=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **blow out** | present | dry winds |  |  |  | winter | from the land | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from land=Co-Patient |

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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:13`.

**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. **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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