Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★, sentence 7

In Britain and other lands north of the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun at midday is due south, so your midday shadow points north; in Sydney and other lands south of the Tropic of Capricorn it is the other way round.

Who acts: Sun, midday shadow, shadow · What happens: be, point · To what, where: Britain, other way, Sydney

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» 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 (Sun, midday shadow, shadow), 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	_	2 Britain	case
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 due	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Tropic	cc
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lands	amod
5	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Britain	conj
6	north	north	ADV	_	5 lands	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Tropic	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tropic	det
9	Tropic	tropic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 north	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Cancer	case
11	Cancer	Cancer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Tropic	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Sun	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sun	det
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 due	nsubj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 midday	case
16	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Sun	nmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 due	cop
18	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	root	root
19	south	south	ADV	_	18 due	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 points	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 points	advmod
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 midday	nmod:poss
23	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shadow	compound
24	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 points	nsubj
25	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 due	conj
26	north	north	ADV	_	25 points	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 way	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Sydney	case
29	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 way	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lands	cc
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lands	amod
32	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 Sydney	conj
33	south	south	ADV	_	32 lands	advmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Tropic	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Tropic	det
36	Tropic	tropic	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 south	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Capricorn	case
38	Capricorn	Capricorn	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Tropic	nmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 way	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 way	cop
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 way	det
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 way	amod
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 due	conj
44	round	round	ADV	_	43 way	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 due	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun at midday		Britain and other lands	due, south property	tree rules
2	point	present	midday shadow			north property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	shadow	the other way	Sydney and other lands	round 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:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:7.

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 ×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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