Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 6
A compass points to magnetic north, which is not exactly the same place as the geographic North Pole.
Who acts: compass, magnetic north · What happens: point, not be · To what, where: magnetic north, same place
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 (compass, magnetic north), 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 | _ | 6 north | case |
| 5 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 north | amod |
| 6 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 points | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 place | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 place | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 place | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 place | advmod |
| 11 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 14 place | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 north | acl:relcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 Pole | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Pole | det |
| 17 | geographic | geographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Pole | amod |
| 18 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Pole | compound |
| 19 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 points | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | present | a compass | magnetic north | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to north=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | magnetic north | the same place | as the geographic North Pole; exactly 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:physics:030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.lesson:6.
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 ×1, 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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