--- title: A key explains the symbols, contour lines show how high and steep th… — Maps and scale · tree and pragmatics description: A key explains the symbols, contour lines show how high and steep the land is, and grid references let two people point to exactly the same square. Who acts: key, contour lines, land, grid references. 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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 (key, contour lines, land, grid references), 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:4 # text = A key explains the symbols, contour lines show how high and steep the land is, and grid references let two people point to exactly the same square. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 symbols symbol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 contour contour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 steep step ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 19 grid grid NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 references reference NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 point point VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 26 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | a key | the symbols | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent symbol=Topic | | 2 | **show** | present | contour lines | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the land | | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | the land *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | grid references | two people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **point** | infinitive | two people *not said here* | | the same square | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to square=Recipient | 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:geography:001-maps-and-scale.lesson:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [Maps and scale, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/1-maps-and-scale/3/) - next →: [Maps and scale, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/1-maps-and-scale/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/1-maps-and-scale/)