Map reading puzzles, sentence 3

The Sun helps when there is no compass: it rises roughly in the east and sets roughly in the west; in the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland it stands in the south at midday, so at noon your shadow points north, but in Australia and New Zealand the midday Sun is in the north and the shadow points south.

Who acts: Sun, compass, shadow, your · What happens: help, be, rise, set, stand, point · To what, where: east, west, United States, north

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 (Sun, compass, shadow, your), 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	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 is	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 helps	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 compass	det
8	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 rises	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rises	nsubj
11	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 helps	parataxis
12	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	11 rises	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 east	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 east	det
15	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rises	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sets	cc
17	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 rises	conj
18	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	17 sets	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 west	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 west	det
21	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sets	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 States	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 States	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 States	det
25	United	United	PROPN	_	26 States	flat
26	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	34 stands	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Canada	punct
28	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 States	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Britain	punct
30	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 States	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Ireland	cc
32	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Britain	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stands	nsubj
34	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 helps	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 south	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 south	det
37	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stands	obl
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 midday	case
39	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stands	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 noon	punct
41	so	so	ADV	_	46 points	advmod
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 noon	case
43	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 points	obl
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 shadow	nmod:poss
45	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 points	nsubj
46	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 stands	conj
47	north	north	ADV	_	46 points	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 north	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 north	cc
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 Australia	case
51	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 north	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 Zealand	cc
53	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Zealand	amod
54	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Australia	conj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 Sun	det
56	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 Sun	nmod:desc
57	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Australia	conj
58	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 north	cop
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 north	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 north	det
61	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 points	conj
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 points	cc
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 points	det
64	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 points	nsubj
65	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 north	conj
66	south	south	ADV	_	65 points	advmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 helps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	the Sun				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	be	present	no compass	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rise	present	compass	the east		roughly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in east=Location
4	set	present	compass not said here	the west		roughly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in west=Destination
5	stand	present	compass	the United States and Canada and Britain and Ireland		in the south; at midday	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in state=Location
6	point	present	your shadow		noon	north property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	your shadow not said here	the north		in Australia and New Zealand and the Sun midday	tree rules
8	point	present	shadow			south property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	shadow		your				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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:049-map-puzzles.lesson:3.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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