Map reading puzzles, sentence 11
The North Star, Polaris, shows the direction of north at night in the Northern Hemisphere.
Who acts: North Star · What happens: show · To what, where: direction
This is a sentence of the lesson «Map reading puzzles» 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 Star), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Star | det |
| 2 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Star | compound |
| 3 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Polaris | punct |
| 5 | Polaris | Polaris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Star | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shows | punct |
| 7 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 direction | det |
| 9 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 north | case |
| 11 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 direction | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Hemisphere | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Hemisphere | det |
| 16 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Hemisphere | amod |
| 17 | Hemisphere | hemisphere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the North Star | the direction of north | night | in the Northern Hemisphere | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent direction=Patient in hemisphere=Topic |
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:049-map-puzzles.lesson:11.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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