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title: Contour lines join points of equal height above sea level, and lines… — Maps and scale · tree and pragmatics
description: Contour lines join points of equal height above sea level, and lines drawn close together mean the ground is steep. Who acts: Contour lines, lines, ground. A sentence of the lesson «Maps and scale» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Maps and scale, sentence 9

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Contour lines join points of equal height above sea level, and lines drawn close together mean the ground is steep.

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**Who acts:** Contour lines, lines, ground · **What happens:** join, draw, mean, be, point · **To what, where:** points, lines, equal height · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Contour lines, lines, ground), 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:9
# text = Contour lines join points of equal height above sea level, and lines drawn close together mean the ground is steep.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Contour	contour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **join** | present | Contour lines | points of equal height above sea level |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  | lines *not said here* |  |  |  | close, together *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | lines |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the ground |  |  |  |  | steep *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **point** |  |  | equal height above sea level |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:9`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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/).

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