Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 24
The farther north a ship sails, the higher the Pole Star stands in the sky.
Who acts: ship, Pole Star · What happens: sail, stand · To what, where: sky
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 (ship, Pole 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 | 2 farther | det |
| 2 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 sails | advmod |
| 3 | north | north | ADV | _ | 2 farther | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sails | nsubj |
| 6 | sails | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stands | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stands | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 higher | det |
| 9 | higher | high | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 stands | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Star | det |
| 11 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Star | compound |
| 12 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stands | nsubj |
| 13 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stands | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 farther | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present | a ship | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | the Pole Star | the sky | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=Location |
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:24.
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, 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.
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