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title: Latitude says how far north or south of the Equator a place is, and… — The map of the Just So Stories: from the North A… · tree and pragmatics
description: Latitude says how far north or south of the Equator a place is, and longitude says how far east or west of Greenwich in London; 50° North, 40° West is in the open North Atlantic, between Ireland and Canada, and Cornwall in south-west England lies at about 50° North, 5° West. Who acts: Latitude, long
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# The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey, sentence 5

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Latitude says how far north or south of the Equator a place is, and longitude says how far east or west of Greenwich in London; 50° North, 40° West is in the open North Atlantic, between Ireland and Canada, and Cornwall in south-west England lies at about 50° North, 5° West.

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**Who acts:** Latitude, longitude, 50, Cornwall · **What happens:** say, be, lie · **To what, where:** place, open North Atlantic, 50 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» 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, longitude, 50, Cornwall), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:5
# text = Latitude says how far north or south of the Equator a place is, and longitude says how far east or west of Greenwich in London; 50° North, 40° West is in the open North Atlantic, between Ireland and Canada, and Cornwall in south-west England lies at about 50° North, 5° West.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	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	2	ccomp	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	longitude	longitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
20	east	east	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	west	west	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Greenwich	Greenwich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
28	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nsubj	_	_
29	°	°	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	conj	_	_
33	°	°	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
34	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	between	between	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	54	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=54:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
52	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	flat	_	_
54	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	about	about	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	54	obl	_	_
58	°	°	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	flat	_	_
59	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod:unmarked	_	_
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
61	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	57	appos	_	_
62	°	°	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod:unmarked	_	_
63	West	west	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
64	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Latitude |  |  |  |  | north *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | longitude |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | 50 |  |  | the open North Atlantic |  | between Ireland and Canada | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie** | present | Cornwall in south |  |  | 50  North |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at 50=Location |

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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:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:5`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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