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title: A route looks different on the way back, so looking behind you helps… — Finding your way with landmarks · tree and pragmatics
description: A route looks different on the way back, so looking behind you helps you recognise it later. Who acts: route, looking, you. A sentence of the lesson «Finding your way with landmarks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Finding your way with landmarks, sentence 9

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A route looks different on the way back, so looking behind you helps you recognise it later.

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**Who acts:** route, looking, you · **What happens:** look, help, recognise · **To what, where:** route

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding your way with landmarks» of the everyday 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 (route, looking, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:016-landmarks.lesson:9
# text = A route looks different on the way back, so looking behind you helps you recognise it later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 016-landmarks.lesson
# annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | a route |  |  |  |  | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | behind you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind you=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | present | looking |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **recognise** | infinitive | you | route |  |  |  | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:016-landmarks.lesson:9`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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