--- title: Real ships could not do that: they sailed with the monsoon and often… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics description: Real ships could not do that: they sailed with the monsoon and often waited months in port for the wind to turn, and the way out and the way back across the Atlantic were different routes. Who acts: Real ships, ships. A sentence of the lesson «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» of the geography cou --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 7 Real ships could not do that: they sailed with the monsoon and often waited months in port for the wind to turn, and the way out and the way back across the Atlantic were different routes. **Who acts:** Real ships, ships · **What happens:** not do, sail, wait, turn, be · **To what, where:** that, port, way different routes 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 (Real ships, 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:7 # text = Real ships could not do that: they sailed with the monsoon and often waited months in port for the wind to turn, and the way out and the way back across the Atlantic were different routes. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 monsoon monsoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 port port NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 out out ADV RB _ 5 advcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 32 back back ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 across across ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Atlantic Atlantic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 routes route NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** | could | Real ships | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 2 | **sail** | past | ships *= ship* | | | | | with the monsoon | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | past | ships *= ship* *not said here* | | | port for the wind | month | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in port=Location | | 4 | **turn** | to-infinitive | ships *= ship* *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | Real ships *not said here* | way different routes | | | | | 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:7`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/6/) - next →: [Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/)