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title: On a physical map, blue shows water, green shows low land and brown… — Maps, plans and the compass · tree and pragmatics
description: On a physical map, blue shows water, green shows low land and brown shows hills and mountains. Who acts: blue, green, brown. 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 15

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On a physical map, blue shows water, green shows low land and brown shows hills and mountains.

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**Who acts:** blue, green, brown · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** water, low land, hills

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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 (blue, green, brown), 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:15
# text = On a physical map, blue shows water, green shows low land and brown shows hills and mountains.
# 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	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **show** | present | blue | water |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent water=Recipient |
| 2 | **show** | present | green | low land |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Recipient |
| 3 | **show** | present | brown | hills and mountains |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hill=Recipient |

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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:15`.

**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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