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title: One degree of latitude is about 111 km, so going 2 degrees straight… — Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: One degree of latitude is about 111 km, so going 2 degrees straight north is a journey of about 222 km. Who acts: One degree, going. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★, sentence 10

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One degree of latitude is about 111 km, so going 2 degrees straight north is a journey of about 222 km.

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**Who acts:** One degree, going · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** 111 km, 2 degrees, journey

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» 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 (One degree, going), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:10
# text = One degree of latitude is about 111 km, so going 2 degrees straight north is a journey of about 222 km.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
7	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	north	north	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	222	222	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | One degree of latitude | 111 km |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund |  | 2 degrees |  |  |  | north *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location degree=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | going | a journey |  |  |  | of 222 km | 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:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:10`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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