--- title: The northern lights glow in the sky near the North Pole, seen from C… — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics description: The northern lights glow in the sky near the North Pole, seen from Canada, Alaska, Scotland and other far-north places; the southern lights glow in the far south, seen from New Zealand and Tasmania. Who acts: northern lights, southern lights. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (northern lights, southern lights), 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:2 # text = The northern lights glow in the sky near the North Pole, seen from Canada, Alaska, Scotland and other far-north places; the southern lights glow in the far south, seen from 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 4 nsubj _ _ 4 glow glow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 near near ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Alaska Alaska PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 22 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 glow glow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 flat _ _ 39 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 Tasmania Tasmania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glow** | present | the northern lights | | | the sky | | near the North Pole | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location | | 2 | **see** | participle | the northern lights *not said here* | | | Canada and Alaska and Scotland and other north places | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **glow** | present | the southern lights | | | the far south | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location | | 4 | **see** | participle | the southern lights *not said here* | | | New Zealand and Tasmania | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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](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:2`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [The night sky and outdoor myths, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/1/) - next →: [The night sky and outdoor myths, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/)