--- title: The Coriolis effect is real, but it only steers huge things like hur… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics description: The Coriolis effect is real, but it only steers huge things like hurricanes; a toilet bowl is far too small, so its swirl comes from the shape of the bowl and the way the water rushes in. Who acts: Coriolis effect, effect, toilet bowl, swirl. 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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, effect, toilet bowl, swirl), 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:4 # text = The Coriolis effect is real, but it only steers huge things like hurricanes; a toilet bowl is far too small, so its swirl comes from the shape of the bowl and the way the water rushes in. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 steers steer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hurricanes hurricane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 swirl swirl NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:conj 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 in in ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Coriolis effect | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **steer** | present | effect | huge things | | | | like hurricanes | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a toilet bowl | | | | | far, small *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | present | effect's swirl | | | the shape of the bowl and the way | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from shape=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **rush in** | present | the water | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | 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:4`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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