--- title: Maps, plans and the compass — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Maps, plans and the compass», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A map is a drawing of a place as a bird would see it from high above, made much smaller so that it fits on paper. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Maps, plans and the compass # Maps, plans and the compass Lesson 41 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/41-maps-and-compass/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/0/) — A map is a drawing of a place as a bird would see it from high above, made much smaller so that it fits on paper. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/1/) — A plan is a map of a small place, such as a room, a classroom or a garden: the bed, the table and the door are drawn as shapes seen from above. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/2/) — The scale tells how much smaller the map is: if 1 centimetre on the map stands for 100 metres on the ground, then 3 centimetres on the map mean 300 metres of real walking. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/3/) — The legend, or key, explains the signs of the map: a blue line for a river, a small black square for a house, a green patch for a forest. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/4/) — On most maps north is at the top, south at the bottom, east on the right and west on the left; a compass helps to find north outside, because its magnetic needle turns to point north. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/5/) — For example, a plan of your room drawn at a scale of 1 to 50 shows a 2-metre bed as a rectangle 4 centimetres long. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/6/) — A map shows a place from above and much smaller than it really is. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/7/) — A plan is a detailed map of a small place, such as a room or a school yard. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/9/) — The legend, or key, explains what each sign and colour on the map means. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/10/) — The four main directions are north, south, east and west; between them lie north-east, south-east, south-west and north-west. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/11/) — On most maps north is at the top and east is on the right. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/12/) — A compass needle is a small magnet that turns to point north, because the Earth itself acts like a giant magnet. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/13/) — A globe is a small round model of the Earth that shows the true shapes of the lands and seas. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/15/) — On a physical map, blue shows water, green shows low land and brown shows hills and mountains. - ← previous: [Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/) - next →: [Continents and oceans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)