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title: On the scale of the whole planet this makes belts of steady winds: t… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics
description: On the scale of the whole planet this makes belts of steady winds: the trade winds blowing from the east in the tropics, the westerlies over places like Britain, calm patches at the equator, and wild westerlies far in the south. Who acts: this, trade winds. A sentence of the lesson «Winds, monsoons 
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# Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 2

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On the scale of the whole planet this makes belts of steady winds: the trade winds blowing from the east in the tropics, the westerlies over places like Britain, calm patches at the equator, and wild westerlies far in the south.

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**Who acts:** this, trade winds · **What happens:** make, blow · **To what, where:** belts, scale

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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 (this, trade 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:2
# text = On the scale of the whole planet this makes belts of steady winds: the trade winds blowing from the east in the tropics, the westerlies over places like Britain, calm patches at the equator, and wild westerlies far in the south.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
16	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
18	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tropics	tropic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	westerlies	westerly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	westerlies	westerly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
42	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **make** | present | this | belts of steady winds |  | the scale of the whole planet |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset belt=Product |
| 2 | **blow** | gerund | the trade winds and the westerlies over places like Britain and calm patches at the equator and wild westerlies in the south *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the tropics; from the east | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from east=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:2`.

**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, R6-punct-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/).

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