Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 0

Try pressing a piece of orange peel flat: it tears or stretches, and the same happens to the Earth's round skin on any flat map.

Who acts: you, piece, same · What happens: try, press, tear, stretch, happen · To what, where: piece

This is a sentence of the lesson «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» of the geography 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 (you, piece, same), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Try	xcomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 piece	det
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 peel	case
6	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 peel	amod
7	peel	peel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piece	nmod
8	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pressing	xcomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tears	nsubj
11	tears	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 stretches	cc
13	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tears	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happens	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 happens	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 same	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 happens	nsubj
18	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tears	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	24 skin	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Earth	det
21	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 skin	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Earth	case
23	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 skin	amod
24	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 happens	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 map	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 map	det
27	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 map	amod
28	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 skin	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	press not said to happen	gerund	you not said here	a piece of orange peel	flat property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
3	tear	present	piece			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stretch	present	piece not said here			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	happen	present	the same		to the Earth's round skin on any flat map	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, 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:geography:003-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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.

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