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title: A political map shows countries, borders and cities, while a physica… — Maps and scale · tree and pragmatics
description: A political map shows countries, borders and cities, while a physical map shows natural features such as mountains, rivers and heights. Who acts: political map, physical map. A sentence of the lesson «Maps and scale» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Maps and scale, sentence 12

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A political map shows countries, borders and cities, while a physical map shows natural features such as mountains, rivers and heights.

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**Who acts:** political map, physical map · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** countries, natural features

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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 (political map, physical map), 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:12
# text = A political map shows countries, borders and cities, while a physical map shows natural features such as mountains, rivers and heights.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
16	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a political map | countries and borders and cities |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent country=Recipient |
| 2 | **show** | present | a physical map | natural features |  |  |  | such mountains and rivers and heights | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feature=Recipient |

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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:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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