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title: The four main directions are north, south, east and west; between th… — Maps, plans and the compass · tree and pragmatics
description: The four main directions are north, south, east and west; between them lie north-east, south-east, south-west and north-west. 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 10

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The four main directions are north, south, east and west; between them lie north-east, south-east, south-west and north-west.

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**What happens:** be, lie · **To what, where:** east

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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: 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:10
# text = The four main directions are north, south, east and west; between them lie north-east, south-east, south-west and north-west.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	north	north	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	east	east	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	west	west	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
16	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	north	north	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
21	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	south	south	ADV	RB	_	27	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	west	west	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	west	west	ADV	RB	_	27	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | north *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | present |  | east |  |  |  | between directions *= direction* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location east=Theme |

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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:10`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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