--- title: A tropical cyclone has a calm, often clear centre called the eye, su… — Weather, storms and the changing climate · tree and pragmatics description: A tropical cyclone has a calm, often clear centre called the eye, surrounded by a wall of the strongest winds; as the eye passes over, the storm goes quiet for a while, then the other side of the wall hits. Who acts: tropical cyclone, clear centre, eye, storm. 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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 (tropical cyclone, clear centre, eye, storm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.lesson:12 # text = A tropical cyclone has a calm, often clear centre called the eye, surrounded by a wall of the strongest winds; as the eye passes over, the storm goes quiet for a while, then the other side of the wall hits. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cyclone cyclone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 6 calm calm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 28 over over ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj 33 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl 37 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 hits hit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj 46 . . 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 | **have** | present | a tropical cyclone | calm | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calm=Patient | | 2 | **call** | participle | a clear centre *not said here* | the eye | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eye=Recipient | | 3 | **surround** | participle | | calm *not said here* | | | | by a wall of the strongest winds | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pass over** | present | the eye | | | | | over *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go** | present | the storm | | | | while | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hit** | present | the other side of the wall | | | | then | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.lesson:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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. 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