Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 12
Online maps such as Google Maps use a version called Web Mercator, which keeps the shapes of small areas such as streets right when you zoom in, but makes Greenland look enormous when you zoom out.
Who acts: Online maps, version, you, Greenland · What happens: use, call, keep, zoom in, make, look · To what, where: version, shapes, Greenland · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Online maps, version, you, Greenland), 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 | Online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 maps | amod |
| 2 | maps | map | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | nsubj |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 6 Maps | case |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Maps | compound | ||
| 6 | Maps | Maps | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 maps | nmod |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 version | det |
| 9 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | obj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 version | acl |
| 11 | Web | web | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mercator | compound |
| 12 | Mercator | Mercator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeps | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 keeps | nsubj |
| 15 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 version | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shapes | det |
| 17 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keeps | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 areas | case |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 areas | amod |
| 20 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shapes | nmod |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 23 streets | case |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 such | fixed |
| 23 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 areas | nmod |
| 24 | right | right | ADV | _ | 27 zoom | advmod |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 zoom | advmod |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 zoom | nsubj |
| 27 | zoom | zoom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 keeps | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 zoom | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 makes | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 makes | cc |
| 31 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 keeps | conj |
| 32 | Greenland | Greenland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 makes | obj |
| 33 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 makes | xcomp |
| 34 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 look | xcomp |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 zoom | advmod |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 zoom | nsubj |
| 37 | zoom | zoom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 look | advcl |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 zoom | compound:prt |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Online maps such Google Maps | a version | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a version not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | present | a version | the shapes of small areas such streets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 4 | zoom in | present | you | right property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | present | a version not said here | Greenland | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | look | infinitive | Greenland not said here | enormous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | zoom out | present | you | vn run-51.3.2 «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:12.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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