Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 10
Equal-area projections such as the Gall-Peters or Mollweide maps show every country at its true size compared with others, but they bend shapes.
Who acts: area projections, others · What happens: show, compare, bend · To what, where: country, true size, shapes
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 (area projections, others), 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 | Equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 area | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Equal | punct |
| 3 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 projections | compound |
| 4 | projections | projection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 show | nsubj |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 Peters | case |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 such | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maps | det |
| 8 | Gall | gall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Peters | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Peters | punct |
| 10 | Peters | Peters | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 projections | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 Mollweide | cc |
| 12 | Mollweide | Mollweide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Peters | conj |
| 13 | maps | map | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 projections | nmod |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 country | det |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 size | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 size | nmod:poss |
| 19 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 size | amod |
| 20 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obl |
| 21 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 size | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 others | case |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 compared | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bend | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 bend | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bend | nsubj |
| 27 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | conj |
| 28 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bend | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | area projections such Gall Peters or Mollweide the maps | every country | map's true size | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent country=Recipient | |||
| 2 | compare | participle | map's true size not said here | with others | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with other=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | bend | present | others = other | shapes | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent shape=Material |
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:10.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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