Map reading puzzles, sentence 4

Moss on one side of a tree is not a safe guide, because moss grows wherever the bark stays shady and damp; the Sun, the stars and a compass are far more reliable.

Who acts: Moss, bark, safe guide · What happens: not be, grow, stay, be · To what, where: safe guide

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 (Moss, bark, safe guide), 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	Moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guide	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 side	nummod
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moss	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 side	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 guide	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 guide	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 guide	det
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 guide	amod
12	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 reliable	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grows	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 grows	mark
15	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grows	nsubj
16	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 guide	advcl
17	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	20 stays	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bark	det
19	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stays	nsubj
20	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 grows	conj
21	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stays	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 damp	cc
23	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shady	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 Sun	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Sun	det
26	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 reliable	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stars	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stars	det
29	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Sun	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 compass	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 compass	det
32	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stars	conj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 reliable	cop
34	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 more	advmod
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 reliable	advmod
36	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 guide	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Moss on one side of a tree	a safe guide		tree rules
2	grow	present	moss			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stay	present	the bark		shady, wherever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	a safe guide		reliable 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:world:049-map-puzzles.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): R6-punct-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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