--- title: The trade winds blow steadily from the east towards the equator in t… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics description: The trade winds blow steadily from the east towards the equator in the tropics, from the north-east in the northern hemisphere and the south-east in the southern. Who acts: trade winds. 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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 (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:9 # text = The trade winds blow steadily from the east towards the equator in the tropics, from the north-east in the northern hemisphere and the south-east in the southern. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 blow blow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 steadily steadily ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 towards towards ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tropics tropic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 hemisphere hemisphere NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **blow** | present | the trade winds | | | the east | | towards the equator; in the tropics; from the north east in the northern hemisphere and the south east; in the southern; steadily *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards equator=Recipient in tropic=Topic | 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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/8/) - next →: [Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/)