--- title: A hiker lines up a map with a compass to choose the right path; a co… — Compasses and the magnetic Earth · tree and pragmatics description: A hiker lines up a map with a compass to choose the right path; a compass needs no batteries or phone signal. Who acts: hiker, compass. A sentence of the lesson «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Compasses and the magnetic Earth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth/) / 13 # Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 13 A hiker lines up a map with a compass to choose the right path; a compass needs no batteries or phone signal. **Who acts:** hiker, compass · **What happens:** line up, choose, need · **To what, where:** map, right path, batteries This is a sentence of the lesson «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» of the physics 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 (hiker, compass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.lesson:13 # text = A hiker lines up a map with a compass to choose the right path; a compass needs no batteries or phone signal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hiker hiker NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lines line VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **line up** | present | a hiker | a map | | | | with a compass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent map=Destination with compass=Theme | | 2 | **choose** | to-infinitive | a hiker *not said here* | the right path | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | | 3 | **need** | present | a compass | no batteries or phone signal | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battery=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:physics:030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.lesson:13`. **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. **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: [Compasses and the magnetic Earth, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth/12/) - next →: [Compasses and the magnetic Earth, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth/)