Maps, plans and the compass, sentence 4
On most maps north is at the top, south at the bottom, east on the right and west on the left; a compass helps to find north outside, because its magnetic needle turns to point north.
Who acts: north, compass, magnetic needle · What happens: be, leave, help, find, turn, point · To what, where: top, north
This is a sentence of the lesson «Maps, plans and the compass» of the world 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 (north, compass, magnetic needle), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 maps | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 maps | amod |
| 3 | maps | map | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 top | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maps | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 south | punct |
| 10 | south | south | ADV | _ | 13 bottom | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 bottom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bottom | det |
| 13 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maps | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 east | punct |
| 15 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bottom | appos |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 turns | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 right | det |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 turns | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 turns | cc |
| 20 | west | west | ADV | _ | 37 turns | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 turns | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 left | det |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 turns | amod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 helps | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 compass | det |
| 26 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 helps | nsubj |
| 27 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 maps | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 find | mark |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 helps | xcomp |
| 30 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 find | obj |
| 31 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 29 find | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 turns | punct |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 turns | mark |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 needle | nmod:poss |
| 35 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 needle | amod |
| 36 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 turns | nsubj |
| 37 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 helps | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 point | mark |
| 39 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 turns | advcl |
| 40 | north | north | ADV | _ | 39 point | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 maps | 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 | north | the top | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | help | present | a compass | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | a compass not said here | north | outside property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent north=Topic | |||
| 5 | turn | present | map's magnetic needle | west property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | point | to-infinitive | map's magnetic needle not said here | north property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:world:041-maps-and-compass.lesson:4.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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