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title: Latitude measures how far north or south of the equator a place is,… — Directions, latitude and longitude · tree and pragmatics
description: Latitude measures how far north or south of the equator a place is, from 0 degrees at the equator to 90 degrees at each pole. Who acts: Latitude, place. A sentence of the lesson «Directions, latitude and longitude» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Directions, latitude and longitude, sentence 7

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Latitude measures how far north or south of the equator a place is, from 0 degrees at the equator to 90 degrees at each pole.

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**Who acts:** Latitude, place · **What happens:** measure, be · **To what, where:** 0 degrees

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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 (Latitude, place), 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:7
# text = Latitude measures how far north or south of the equator a place is, from 0 degrees at the equator to 90 degrees at each pole.
# 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): no change
1	Latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	measures	measure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	north	north	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	south	south	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **measure** | present | Latitude |  |  |  |  | north *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | a place |  |  | 0 degrees |  | at the equator to 90 degrees at each pole | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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