--- title: Moss on one side of a tree is not a safe guide, because moss grows w… — Map reading puzzles · tree and pragmatics description: Moss on one side of a tree is not a safe guide, because moss grows wherever the bark stays shady and damp; the Sun, the stars and a compass are far more reliable. Who acts: Moss, bark, safe guide. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moss, bark, safe guide), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:049-map-puzzles.lesson:4 # text = Moss on one side of a tree is not a safe guide, because moss grows wherever the bark stays shady and damp; the Sun, the stars and a compass are far more reliable. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 049-map-puzzles.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 Moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 guide guide NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 17 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 shady shady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 35 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 36 reliable reliable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Moss on one side of a tree | a safe guide | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | moss | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stay** | present | the bark | | | | | shady, wherever *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a safe guide | | | | | reliable *property* | tree rules | 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:049-map-puzzles.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Map reading puzzles, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/49-map-puzzles/3/) - next →: [Map reading puzzles, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/49-map-puzzles/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/49-map-puzzles/)