--- title: The Coriolis effect is real and makes hurricanes spin opposite ways… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics description: The Coriolis effect is real and makes hurricanes spin opposite ways in the north and south of the world, but it is far too weak to decide which way a sink or toilet drains. Who acts: Coriolis effect, hurricanes, effect, sink. 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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 (Coriolis effect, hurricanes, effect, sink), 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:10 # text = The Coriolis effect is real and makes hurricanes spin opposite ways in the north and south of the world, but it is far too weak to decide which way a sink or toilet drains. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Coriolis Coriolis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 hurricanes hurricane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 29 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 30 det _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 32 sink sink NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:compound 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 drains drain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 36 . . 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** | present | the Coriolis effect | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | the Coriolis effect *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **spin** | infinitive | hurricanes | opposite ways | | the north of the world and south | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | effect | | | | | far, weak *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **decide** | to-infinitive | effect *not said here* | which way | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **drain** | present | a sink or toilet | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | 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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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