Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 1

A projection is a chosen way of flattening, and each one gives something up: true shapes, true sizes, true distances or true directions.

Who acts: projection, chosen way, one · What happens: choose, be, flatten, give up · To what, where: chosen way, something

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 (projection, chosen way, one), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 projection	det
2	projection	projection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 flattening	mark
8	flattening	flatten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 way	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gives	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gives	cc
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gives	nsubj
13	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	conj
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 gives	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 gives	compound:prt
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 shapes	punct
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shapes	amod
18	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 something	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sizes	punct
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sizes	amod
21	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shapes	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 distances	punct
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 distances	amod
24	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shapes	conj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 directions	cc
26	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 directions	amod
27	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shapes	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	choose	participle			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a projection	a chosen way	tree rules
3	flatten	gerund	a chosen way not said here		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	give up	present	each one	something	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Source

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:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

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