--- title: Because Earth spins, moving air and water do not go straight but cur… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics description: Because Earth spins, moving air and water do not go straight but curve, to the right in the north and to the left in the south. Who acts: Earth, moving. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Earth, moving), 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:3 # text = Because Earth spins, moving air and water do not go straight but curve, to the right in the north and to the left 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): no change 1 Because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 3 mark _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 straight straight ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 curve curve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | present | Earth | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **move** | gerund | | air and water | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 3 | **not** **go** | present · do-support | moving | | | | | straight *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **curve** | infinitive | moving *not said here* | | | | | to the right in the north and the left in the south | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | 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:3`. **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): no change. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/2/) - next →: [Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/)