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Moduli interpretation and Ogg's notation for the cusps on modular curves

In Ogg's paper "rational points on certain elliptic modular curves", the author says, using Ogg's notation for cusps, that for fiexed $d$, if $(y, N) = d$, then for any $x$ satisfying $(x, y, N) = 1$, the cusps of the form $$\left( \begin{array}{c} x \\ y \end{array} \right) $$ are conjugate, and hence for $d = 1, 2$, these are rational.

But I don't know the moduli interpretation for cusps in $X_1(N)$ for $N$ composite.

I know that the cusps $$\left( \begin{array}{c} 0 \\ y \end{array} \right) $$ are corresponding to the Neron $N$-gon with a $\Gamma_1(N)$-structure $(1, a) \in \mu_N \times \mathbb{Z}/N$, and the cusps $$\left( \begin{array}{c} x \\ 0 \end{array} \right) $$ are $1$-gon.

How about other cusps?

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