--- title: Latitude has a natural zero, the equator, halfway between the poles;… — Directions, latitude and longitude · tree and pragmatics description: Latitude has a natural zero, the equator, halfway between the poles; longitude has none, so in 1884 the world agreed to start it at Greenwich in London. Who acts: Latitude, longitude, world. 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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 (Latitude, longitude, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:002-directions-latitude-and-longitude.lesson:1 # text = Latitude has a natural zero, the equator, halfway between the poles; longitude has none, so in 1884 the world agreed to start it at Greenwich in London. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 002-directions-latitude-and-longitude.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Latitude latitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 zero zero NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 halfway halfway ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 between between ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 longitude longitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 1884 1884 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Greenwich Greenwich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **have** | present | Latitude | a natural zero | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zero=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | longitude | none | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the world | | | 1884 | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **start** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the world *not said here* | longitude | | Greenwich in London | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:002-directions-latitude-and-longitude.lesson:1`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Directions, latitude and longitude, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/0/) - next →: [Directions, latitude and longitude, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/)