--- title: A windsock shows which way the wind blows, and pilots take off into… — Wind and weather · tree and pragmatics description: A windsock shows which way the wind blows, and pilots take off into the wind because it gives the wings more air flowing over them. Who acts: windsock, wind, pilots, more air. A sentence of the lesson «Wind and weather» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Wind and weather](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/) / 11 # Wind and weather, sentence 11 A windsock shows which way the wind blows, and pilots take off into the wind because it gives the wings more air flowing over them. **Who acts:** windsock, wind, pilots, more air · **What happens:** show, blow, take off, give, flow · **To what, where:** way, wind, more air, wings · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind and weather» of the physics 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 (windsock, wind, pilots, more air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:015-wind-and-weather.lesson:11 # text = A windsock shows which way the wind blows, and pilots take off into the wind because it gives the wings more air flowing over them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 015-wind-and-weather.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 windsock windsock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 5 det _ _ 5 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 pilots pilot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 off off ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 iobj _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 23 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a windsock | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **blow** | present | the wind | which way | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **take off** | present | pilots | | | the wind | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | present | Wind | more air | the wings | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wing=Recipient air=Theme | | 5 | **flow** | gerund | more air *not said here* | | | | | over pilots *= pilot* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Location | 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:physics:015-wind-and-weather.lesson:11`. **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 ×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: [Wind and weather, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/10/) - next →: [Wind and weather, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/)