Directions, latitude and longitude, sentence 11
In the northern hemisphere, the height of the Pole Star above the horizon in degrees is roughly equal to your latitude.
Who acts: height · What happens: be · To what, where: northern hemisphere
This is a sentence of the lesson «Directions, latitude and longitude» 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 (height), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 hemisphere | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hemisphere | det |
| 3 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hemisphere | amod |
| 4 | hemisphere | hemisphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 equal | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hemisphere | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 height | det |
| 7 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 equal | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Star | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Star | det |
| 10 | Pole | pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Star | compound |
| 11 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 height | nmod |
| 12 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 horizon | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horizon | det |
| 14 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 height | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 degrees | case |
| 16 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 horizon | nmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 equal | cop |
| 18 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 19 equal | advmod |
| 19 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 latitude | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 latitude | nmod:poss |
| 22 | latitude | latitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 equal | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 equal | punct |
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 height of the Pole Star above the horizon in degrees | the northern hemisphere | to your latitude; equal, roughly property | tree rules |
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, 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:002-directions-latitude-and-longitude.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): 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.
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