--- title: It's a lovely picture, and so are the others: the compass needle poi… — Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts · tree and pragmatics description: It's a lovely picture, and so are the others: the compass needle pointing straight at Father Christmas's house, the Earth's middle sloshing with lava like a giant soup pot, Greenland on the classroom map as big as all of Africa. Who acts: way, compass needle, middle. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, compass needle, middle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:1 # text = It's a lovely picture, and so are the others: the compass needle pointing straight at Father Christmas's house, the Earth's middle sloshing with lava like a giant soup pot, Greenland on the classroom map as big as all of Africa. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 straight straight ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 25 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 28 sloshing slosh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 lava lava NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Greenland Greenland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 classroom classroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nmod 42 as as ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 44 as as ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | way | a lovely picture and the others | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | way *not said here* | the others | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **point** | gerund | the compass needle and the Earth's middle *not said here* | | | Father Christmas's house | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **slosh** | gerund | the Earth's middle *not said here* | | | | | with lava; like a giant soup pot | vn pour-9.5 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:1`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts/0/) - next →: [Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts/)