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title: The legend, or key, explains what each sign and colour on the map me… — Maps, plans and the compass · tree and pragmatics
description: The legend, or key, explains what each sign and colour on the map means. Who acts: legend, sign. 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 9

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The legend, or key, explains what each sign and colour on the map means.

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**Who acts:** legend, sign · **What happens:** explain, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, sign), 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:9
# text = The legend, or key, explains what each sign and colour on the map means.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	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	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
17	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | each sign on the map and colour |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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:9`.

**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. **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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