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title: A map is a drawing of a place as a bird would see it from high above… — Maps, plans and the compass · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: map, bird. A sentence of the lesson «Maps, plans and the compass» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maps, plans and the compass, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** map, bird · **What happens:** be, see, make, fit · **To what, where:** drawing, map, high, paper

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Maps, plans and the compass» of the world 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 (map, bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:041-maps-and-compass.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 041-maps-and-compass.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
17	above	above	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a map | a drawing |  |  |  | of a place | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | would | a bird | map |  | high |  | above *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | past | a map *not said here* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **fit** | present | bird |  |  | paper |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on paper=Trajectory |

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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:world:041-maps-and-compass.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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