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title: It's the Coriolis effect, it's science!" Your cousin is back from Sy… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics
description: It's the Coriolis effect, it's science!" Your cousin is back from Sydney and he says it like a man who has seen the edge of the world. Who acts: toilet, cousin, Sydney, man. A sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 1

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It's the Coriolis effect, it's science!" Your cousin is back from Sydney and he says it like a man who has seen the edge of the world.

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**Who acts:** toilet, cousin, Sydney, man · **What happens:** be, say, see · **To what, where:** Coriolis effect, science, Sydney, toilet, edge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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 (toilet, cousin, Sydney, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:1
# text = It's the Coriolis effect, it's science!" Your cousin is back from Sydney and he says it like a man who has seen the edge of the world.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Coriolis	Coriolis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	parataxis	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | toilet | the Coriolis effect |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | toilet | science |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your cousin |  |  | Sydney |  | back *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Sydney | toilet |  |  |  | like a man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a man | the edge of the world |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer edge=Stimulus |

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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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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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