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title: A compass points to magnetic north, which is not the same place as t… — Directions, latitude and longitude · tree and pragmatics
description: A compass points to magnetic north, which is not the same place as the North Pole, and it has been drifting from the Canadian Arctic towards Siberia by tens of kilometres a year. Who acts: compass, magnetic north. A sentence of the lesson «Directions, latitude and longitude» of the geography course 
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# Directions, latitude and longitude, sentence 6

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A compass points to magnetic north, which is not the same place as the North Pole, and it has been drifting from the Canadian Arctic towards Siberia by tens of kilometres a year.

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**Who acts:** compass, magnetic north · **What happens:** point, not be, drift · **To what, where:** magnetic north, same place, Canadian Arctic

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Directions, latitude and longitude» 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 (compass, magnetic north), 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:6
# text = A compass points to magnetic north, which is not the same place as the North Pole, and it has been drifting from the Canadian Arctic towards Siberia by tens of kilometres a year.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux	_	_
23	drifting	drift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **point** | present | a compass |  | magnetic north |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to north=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | magnetic north | the same place |  |  |  | as the North Pole | tree rules |
| 3 | **drift** | present · perfect · progressive | compass |  |  | the Canadian Arctic | year | towards Siberia; by tens of kilometres | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from arctic=Source towards siberia=Trajectory by ten=Destination |

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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:002-directions-latitude-and-longitude.lesson:6`.

**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, 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/).

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