--- title: Old sayings like "moss grows on the north side" are not reliable way… — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics description: Old sayings like "moss grows on the north side" are not reliable ways to find your way, because moss grows wherever it is damp and shady, on any side of a tree. Who acts: moss, Old sayings. 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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 (moss, Old sayings), 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:25 # text = Old sayings like "moss grows on the north side" are not reliable ways to find your way, because moss grows wherever it is damp and shady, on any side of a tree. # 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 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sayings saying NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 3 like like SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 north north ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 reliable reliable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 24 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advcl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 shady shady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 33 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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 | **grow** *in a quote* | present | moss | Old sayings *not said here* | | the north side | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location saying=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Old sayings | reliable ways | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | | your way | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 4 | **grow** | present | moss | | | any side of a tree | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | | 5 | **is** | present | moss | | | | | damp, wherever *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | moss *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:25`. **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/). - ← previous: [The night sky and outdoor myths, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/24/) - next →: [Safe toys for you and little ones, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/241-safe-toys/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/)