--- title: The antipodes of a place is the point exactly opposite it on the oth… — Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre… · tree and pragmatics description: The antipodes of a place is the point exactly opposite it on the other side of the Earth; for Britain it is in the Pacific Ocean south-east of New Zealand, which is why people in Britain call Australia and New Zealand «the Antipodes». Who acts: antipodes, Earth, New Zealand, people. 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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 (antipodes, Earth, New Zealand, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:12 # text = The antipodes of a place is the point exactly opposite it on the other side of the Earth; for Britain it is in the Pacific Ocean south-east of New Zealand, which is why people in Britain call Australia and New Zealand «the Antipodes». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 antipodes antipode NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 opposite opposite ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 28 south south ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 30 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 42 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 46 « « PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Antipodes antipode PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 42 appos _ _ 49 » » PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the antipodes of a place | the point | | the other side of the Earth | | opposite point | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | Earth | | | the Pacific Ocean | | for Britain; east of New Zealand *nmod* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | New Zealand | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | present | people in Britain | | Australia and New Zealand | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent australia=Recipient | 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:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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. 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