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title: Runways have lights to guide pilots in the dark and fog, and their b… — Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones · tree and pragmatics
description: Runways have lights to guide pilots in the dark and fog, and their big painted numbers show the compass direction divided by ten, so runway 27 points roughly west, to 270 degrees; on a compass north is 0 or 360 degrees, east 90, south 180 and west 270. Who acts: Runways, big painted numbers, runway,
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# Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones, sentence 13

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Runways have lights to guide pilots in the dark and fog, and their big painted numbers show the compass direction divided by ten, so runway 27 points roughly west, to 270 degrees; on a compass north is 0 or 360 degrees, east 90, south 180 and west 270.

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**Who acts:** Runways, big painted numbers, runway, compass north · **What happens:** have, guide, paint, show, divide, point · **To what, where:** lights, pilots, dark, compass direction, 270 degrees, 0

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones» of the technology 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 (Runways, big painted numbers, runway, compass north), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson:13
# text = Runways have lights to guide pilots in the dark and fog, and their big painted numbers show the compass direction divided by ten, so runway 27 points roughly west, to 270 degrees; on a compass north is 0 or 360 degrees, east 90, south 180 and west 270.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Runways	runway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	pilots	pilot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	runway	runway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	flat	_	_
29	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
30	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	west	west	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	270	270	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	360	360	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	conj	_	_
45	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	east	east	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nmod	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	south	south	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	180	180	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	nmod	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	west	west	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	270	270	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	51	conj	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Runways | lights |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 2 | **guide** | to-infinitive | Runways *not said here* | pilots |  | the dark and fog |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pilot=Theme in dark=Destination |
| 3 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **show** | present | Runways's big painted numbers | the compass direction |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Recipient |
| 5 | **divide** | participle |  | the compass direction *not said here* |  |  |  | by ten | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by ten=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **point** | present | runway |  | 270 degrees |  |  | west *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to degree=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | present | a compass north |  |  | 0 |  |  | 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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**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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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