--- title: A girl in Scotland believed that moss always grows on the north side… — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Scotland believed that moss always grows on the north side of trees and used it to find her way; she walked the wrong way and got lost. Who acts: girl, moss. 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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 (girl, moss), 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:23 # text = A girl in Scotland believed that moss always grows on the north side of trees and used it to find her way; she walked the wrong way and got lost. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 always always ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 north north ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | past | a girl in Scotland | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **grow** | present | moss | | | the north side of trees | | always *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | | 3 | **use** | past | a girl in Scotland *not said here* | moss | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | a girl in Scotland *not said here* | girl's way | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 5 | **walk** | past | girl | the wrong way | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | | 6 | **get** | past | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **lose** | participle | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:23`. **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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The night sky and outdoor myths, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/22/) - next →: [The night sky and outdoor myths, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/)