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title: On British maps a four-figure grid reference gives the eastings (the… — Maps and scale · tree and pragmatics
description: On British maps a four-figure grid reference gives the eastings (the number along the bottom) first and the northings (the number up the side) second. Who acts: figure grid reference. A sentence of the lesson «Maps and scale» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Maps and scale, sentence 10

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On British maps a four-figure grid reference gives the eastings (the number along the bottom) first and the northings (the number up the side) second.

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**Who acts:** figure grid reference · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** eastings, British maps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Maps and scale» of the geography 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 (figure grid reference), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:001-maps-and-scale.lesson:10
# text = On British maps a four-figure grid reference gives the eastings (the number along the bottom) first and the northings (the number up the side) second.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 001-maps-and-scale.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
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eastings	easting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	along	along	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	northings	northing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
31	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **give** | present | a figure grid reference | the eastings and the northings |  | British maps |  | first, second *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent easting=Theme on map=Asset |

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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:geography:001-maps-and-scale.lesson:10`.

**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. **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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