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title: In Britain and other lands north of the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun at… — Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: In Britain and other lands north of the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun at midday is due south, so your midday shadow points north; in Sydney and other lands south of the Tropic of Capricorn it is the other way round. Who acts: Sun, midday shadow, shadow. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directio
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# Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★, sentence 7

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In Britain and other lands north of the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun at midday is due south, so your midday shadow points north; in Sydney and other lands south of the Tropic of Capricorn it is the other way round.

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**Who acts:** Sun, midday shadow, shadow · **What happens:** be, point · **To what, where:** Britain, other way, Sydney

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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 (Sun, midday shadow, shadow), 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:7
# text = In Britain and other lands north of the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun at midday is due south, so your midday shadow points north; in Sydney and other lands south of the Tropic of Capricorn it is the other way round.
# 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 ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	north	north	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tropic	tropic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Cancer	Cancer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	0	root	_	_
19	south	south	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	north	north	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	south	south	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Tropic	tropic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Capricorn	Capricorn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
44	round	round	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **is** | present | the Sun at midday |  |  | Britain and other lands |  | due, south *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **point** | present | midday shadow |  |  |  |  | north *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | shadow | the other way |  | Sydney and other lands |  | round *property* | 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: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): R5-strong ×3. **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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