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title: Each big ocean has huge circular currents called gyres, turning cloc… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics
description: Each big ocean has huge circular currents called gyres, turning clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the southern, and floating rubbish such as plastic gets trapped in their calm middle. Who acts: big ocean, huge circular currents. A sentence of the lesson «Winds, monsoons and o
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# Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 16

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Each big ocean has huge circular currents called gyres, turning clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the southern, and floating rubbish such as plastic gets trapped in their calm middle.

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**Who acts:** big ocean, huge circular currents · **What happens:** have, call, turn, float, trap · **To what, where:** huge circular currents, gyres, rubbish, calm middle · **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 (big ocean, huge circular currents), 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:16
# text = Each big ocean has huge circular currents called gyres, turning clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the southern, and floating rubbish such as plastic gets trapped in their calm middle.
# 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	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	currents	current	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	gyres	gyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	clockwise	clockwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	anticlockwise	anticlockwise	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
25	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nsubj:pass
29	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | each big ocean | huge circular currents |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | huge circular currents *not said here* | gyres |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | each big ocean *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clockwise *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **float** | gerund | each big ocean *not said here* | rubbish  plastic |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Agent |
| 5 | **trap** | present · passive | each big ocean *not said here* |  |  | currents's calm middle |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in middle=Destination |

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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:16`.

**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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