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title: Across the Atlantic ships went out with the trade winds in the south… — The Atlantic routes and the slave trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Across the Atlantic ships went out with the trade winds in the south and came home with the westerlies in the north, a great loop linking Europe, Africa and the Americas. Who acts: ships, great loop. A sentence of the lesson «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» of the geography course of Mova's
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# The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 1

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Across the Atlantic ships went out with the trade winds in the south and came home with the westerlies in the north, a great loop linking Europe, Africa and the Americas.

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**Who acts:** ships, great loop · **What happens:** go out, come, link · **To what, where:** great loop, Europe

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» 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 (ships, great loop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.lesson:1
# text = Across the Atlantic ships went out with the trade winds in the south and came home with the westerlies in the north, a great loop linking Europe, Africa and the Americas.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.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	Across	across	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
4	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	westerlies	westerly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	loop	loop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
27	linking	link	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the ships across Atlantic | a great loop |  |  |  | with the trade winds in the south; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wind=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | the ships across Atlantic *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the westerlies in the north; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **link** | gerund | a great loop *not said here* | Europe and Africa and the Americas |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent europe=Patient |

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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.

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**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:030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.lesson:1`.

**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/).

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