--- title: On most maps north is at the top, south at the bottom, east on the r… — Maps, plans and the compass · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: north, compass, magnetic needle. A sentence of the lesson «Maps, plans and the compass» of the world cours --- [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/4/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/) / 4 # Maps, plans and the compass, sentence 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. **Who acts:** north, compass, magnetic needle · **What happens:** be, leave, help, find, turn, point · **To what, where:** top, north 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 (north, compass, magnetic needle), 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:4 # text = 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. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 maps map NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 10 south south ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det 18 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 20 west west ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det 23 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 outside outside ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 point point VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 40 north north ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | north | | | the top | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | a compass | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | a compass *not said here* | north | | | | outside *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent north=Topic | | 5 | **turn** | present | map's magnetic needle | | | | | west *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **point** | to-infinitive | map's magnetic needle *not said here* | | | | | north *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Maps, plans and the compass, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/3/) - next →: [Maps, plans and the compass, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/)