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title: On a grid reference the eastings (along the bottom) come before the… — Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: On a grid reference the eastings (along the bottom) come before the northings (up the side), remembered as "along the corridor, then up the stairs". Who acts: eastings. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★, sentence 9

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On a grid reference the eastings (along the bottom) come before the northings (up the side), remembered as "along the corridor, then up the stairs".

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**Who acts:** eastings · **What happens:** come, remember · **To what, where:** northings, grid reference

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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 (eastings), 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:9
# text = On a grid reference the eastings (along the bottom) come before the northings (up the side), remembered as "along the corridor, then up the stairs".
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eastings	easting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	northings	northing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:appos
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
22	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	along	along	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	corridor	corridor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	parataxis	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **come** | present | the eastings along the bottom *not said here* |  |  | the northings up the side |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before northing=Location |
| 2 | **remember** | participle |  |  |  | a grid reference  the eastings along the bottom |  | as the corridor | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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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