Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 8
A compass points to the magnetic north pole, which is in a different place from the geographic North Pole and slowly moves every year.
Who acts: compass, magnetic north pole, geographic North Pole · What happens: point, be, move · To what, where: magnetic north pole, different place
This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths 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 (compass, magnetic north pole, geographic North Pole), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 compass | det |
| 2 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 points | nsubj |
| 3 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 pole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pole | det |
| 6 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pole | amod |
| 7 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pole | compound |
| 8 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 points | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 place | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 place | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pole | acl:relcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Pole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Pole | det |
| 18 | geographic | geographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Pole | amod |
| 19 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Pole | compound |
| 20 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 place | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 moves | cc |
| 22 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 23 moves | advmod |
| 23 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Pole | acl:relcl |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 year | det |
| 25 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moves | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 points | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | present | a compass | the magnetic north pole | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to pole=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the magnetic north pole | a different place | from the geographic North Pole | tree rules | |||
| 3 | move | present | the geographic North Pole not said here | year | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.
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