Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 23

Latitude tells how far north or south a place is; longitude tells how far east or west.

Who acts: Latitude, place, longitude · What happens: tell, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» 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 (Latitude, place, longitude), 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	Latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 north	advmod
5	north	north	ADV	_	2 tells	advmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 south	cc
7	south	south	ADV	_	5 north	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 north	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 north	cop
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 tells	punct
12	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tells	nsubj
13	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	conj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 far	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 east	advmod
16	east	east	ADV	_	13 tells	advmod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 west	cc
18	west	west	ADV	_	16 east	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Latitude		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a place	far, north property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	longitude	east property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:23.

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 ×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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