--- title: El Niño is a pattern every few years in which the eastern tropical P… — Weather, storms and the changing climate · tree and pragmatics description: El Niño is a pattern every few years in which the eastern tropical Pacific becomes unusually warm, changing weather around the world, for example bringing drought to Australia and floods to Peru. Who acts: El, eastern tropical Pacific. 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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 (El, eastern tropical Pacific), 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:20 # text = El Niño is a pattern every few years in which the eastern tropical Pacific becomes unusually warm, changing weather around the world, for example bringing drought to Australia and floods to Peru. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 El El PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 Niño Niño PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 7 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 16 unusually unusually ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 20 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 around around ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 26 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:discourse 27 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 28 drought drought NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Peru Peru PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **is a** | present | El | a pattern | | | year | | tree rules | | 2 | **become** | present | the eastern tropical Pacific | | | | in every few years | warm *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in which=Result | | 3 | **change** | gerund | the eastern tropical Pacific *not said here* | weather | | the world | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient | | 4 | **bring** | gerund | the eastern tropical Pacific *not said here* | example | Australia | | | to Peru | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drought=Theme to australia=Destination | 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:20`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Weather, storms and the changing climate, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate/19/) - next →: [Population and cities, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate/)