Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 13
A hiker lines up a map with a compass to choose the right path; a compass needs no batteries or phone signal.
Who acts: hiker, compass · What happens: line up, choose, need · To what, where: map, right path, batteries
This is a sentence of the lesson «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» 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 (hiker, compass), 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 hiker | det |
| 2 | hiker | hiker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lines | nsubj |
| 3 | lines | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lines | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 map | det |
| 6 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lines | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 compass | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 compass | det |
| 9 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 map | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 choose | mark |
| 11 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lines | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 path | det |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 path | amod |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 choose | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 needs | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 compass | det |
| 17 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 needs | nsubj |
| 18 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lines | parataxis |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 batteries | det |
| 20 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 needs | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 signal | cc |
| 22 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 signal | compound |
| 23 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 batteries | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lines | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | line up | present | a hiker | a map | with a compass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent map=Destination with compass=Theme | |||
| 2 | choose | to-infinitive | a hiker not said here | the right path | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need | present | a compass | no batteries or phone signal | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battery=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:physics:030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.lesson:13.
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 ×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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