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title: The northern lights may be seen in Canada, Alaska, Scotland and othe… — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics
description: The northern lights may be seen in Canada, Alaska, Scotland and other far-north places, and the southern lights in New Zealand and Tasmania. A sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 13

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The northern lights may be seen in Canada, Alaska, Scotland and other far-north places, and the southern lights in New Zealand and Tasmania.

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**What happens:** see · **To what, where:** northern lights, Canada

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:13
# text = The northern lights may be seen in Canada, Alaska, Scotland and other far-north places, and the southern lights in New Zealand and Tasmania.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	26	flat	_	_
26	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Tasmania	Tasmania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | may · passive |  | the northern lights |  | Canada and Alaska and Scotland and other north places |  | the southern lights in New Zealand and Tasmania *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:13`.

**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): no change. **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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