--- title: Finding your way with landmarks — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Finding your way with landmarks», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A landmark is something easy to see and remember, like a tall tower, a statue, a bridge, a river or a big red door. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Finding your way with landmarks # Finding your way with landmarks Lesson 16 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/16-landmarks/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/0/) — A landmark is something easy to see and remember, like a tall tower, a statue, a bridge, a river or a big red door. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/1/) — When you go somewhere new, pick a landmark at each turn, and look back now and then, because the way back looks different from the way there. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/2/) — Streets have names on signs, and houses have numbers; usually odd numbers are on one side of the street and even numbers on the other. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/4/) — Example: Liam in Toronto remembers «left at the library, right at the bridge, our building is opposite the park» — and finds his way home. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/5/) — A boy in Yorkshire took a short cut through a wood without looking at where he was going; he got lost and wandered for hours before a search team found him cold and frightened. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/6/) — A girl in a big shopping centre in Sydney got separated from her dad; she remembered they had parked by the red lion statue and asked a shop worker to take her there. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/7/) — A landmark is a feature that is easy to recognise and remember. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/8/) — Good landmarks do not move: a tower, a church, a bridge or a statue — not a parked car or a dog. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/9/) — A route looks different on the way back, so looking behind you helps you recognise it later. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/10/) — Street names are written on signs, often at corners. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/11/) — On most streets, houses with odd numbers are on one side and even numbers on the other. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/12/) — On most maps, north is at the top. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/13/) — A compass needle points roughly north. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/14/) — The Sun rises roughly in the east and sets roughly in the west. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/15/) — At midday the Sun is in the southern part of the sky in the USA, Canada, the UK and Ireland. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/16/) — At midday the Sun is in the northern part of the sky in Australia and New Zealand. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/17/) — Moss can grow on any damp, shady side of a tree, so it is not a reliable way to find north. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/18/) — Phone maps are helpful, but batteries run out, so it is wise to know your route too. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/19/) — Children who have not noticed landmarks often walk the wrong way and get more lost. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/20/) — Remembering a big, fixed landmark helps you and the adults find each other again. - ← previous: [Weather signs and the 30-30 rule](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/) - next →: [What to do if you are lost](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)