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title: The legend, or key, explains the signs of the map: a blue line for a… — Maps, plans and the compass · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: legend. 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 
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# Maps, plans and the compass, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** legend · **What happens:** explain, sign · **To what, where:** signs, map

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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 (legend), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:appos
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:appos
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the legend or key | the signs of the map |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic |
| 2 | **sign** |  |  | the map |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:3`.

**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, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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