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title: A compass points to magnetic north, which is not exactly the same pl… — Compasses and the magnetic Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: A compass points to magnetic north, which is not exactly the same place as the geographic North Pole. Who acts: compass, magnetic north. 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 cla
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# Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 6

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A compass points to magnetic north, which is not exactly the same place as the geographic North Pole.

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**Who acts:** compass, magnetic north · **What happens:** point, not be · **To what, where:** magnetic north, same place

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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 (compass, magnetic north), 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:6
# text = A compass points to magnetic north, which is not exactly the same place as the geographic North Pole.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	geographic	geographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **point** | present | a compass |  | magnetic north |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to north=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | magnetic north | the same place |  |  |  | as the geographic North Pole; exactly *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:physics:030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.lesson:6`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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