--- title: The Tropic of Cancer lies at about 23.4 degrees north, the Tropic of… — Directions, latitude and longitude · tree and pragmatics description: The Tropic of Cancer lies at about 23.4 degrees north, the Tropic of Capricorn at about 23.4 degrees south and the Arctic Circle at about 66.6 degrees north; these lines come from the Earth's tilt of about 23.4 degrees (90 minus 23.4 is 66.6). Who acts: Tropic, lines, 23.4 degrees. 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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 (Tropic, lines, 23.4 degrees), 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:13 # text = The Tropic of Cancer lies at about 23.4 degrees north, the Tropic of Capricorn at about 23.4 degrees south and the Arctic Circle at about 66.6 degrees north; these lines come from the Earth's tilt of about 23.4 degrees (90 minus 23.4 is 66.6). # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Tropic tropic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Cancer Cancer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 23.4 23.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 north north ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Tropic tropic NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Capricorn Capricorn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 23.4 23.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 20 south south ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Arctic Arctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 24 Circle Circle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 66.6 66.6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 north north ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 tilt tilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 about about ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 23.4 23.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 44 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 minus minus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ _ 46 23.4 23.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 45 flat _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 48 66.6 66.6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 parataxis _ _ 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 48 punct _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **lie** | present | the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and the Arctic Circle | | | 23.4 degrees | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at degree=Location | | 2 | **come** | present | this lines | | | the Earth's tilt of 23.4 degrees and 90 minus | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tilt=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | | 66.6 | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tilt** | | 23.4 degrees and 90 minus | | | | | | nom tilt «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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:13`. **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): R8-pos-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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/12/) - next →: [Directions, latitude and longitude, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/)