--- title: Near the equator lies a zone of weak, changing winds called the dold… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics description: Near the equator lies a zone of weak, changing winds called the doldrums, where sailing ships could be stuck for days. Who acts: zone, weak changing winds, sailing ships. A sentence of the lesson «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 18 Near the equator lies a zone of weak, changing winds called the doldrums, where sailing ships could be stuck for days. **Who acts:** zone, weak changing winds, sailing ships · **What happens:** lie, change, call, sail, be · **To what, where:** equator, doldrums · **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 (zone, weak changing winds, sailing ships), 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:18 # text = Near the equator lies a zone of weak, changing winds called the doldrums, where sailing ships could be stuck for days. # 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 ×1 1 Near near ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 doldrums doldrums NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 17 sailing sail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod 18 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 acl:relcl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | a zone of weak changing winds | | | the equator | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near equator=Location | | 2 | **change** | gerund | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | participle | weak changing winds *not said here* | the doldrums | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent doldrums=Recipient | | 4 | **sail** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | could | sailing ships | | | | day | stuck *property* | tree rules | 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:18`. **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 ×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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/17/) - next →: [Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/)