Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 13

The shortest route between two places on a globe is part of a great circle, a circle that goes all the way round the globe's widest part, like the equator does, so a flight from London to Los Angeles passes over Greenland and northern Canada.

Who acts: shortest route, circle, equator, flight · What happens: be, go, do, pass · To what, where: part, way, widest part, Greenland

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 (shortest route, circle, equator, flight), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 route	det
2	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 route	amod
3	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nsubj
4	between	between	ADP	_	6 places	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 places	nummod
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 route	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 globe	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 globe	det
9	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 places	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 part	cop
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 circle	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 circle	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 circle	amod
15	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 circle	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 circle	det
18	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 circle	appos
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 goes	nsubj
20	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 circle	acl:relcl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 way	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 goes	obl
24	round	round	ADP	_	29 part	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 globe	det
26	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 part	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 globe	case
28	widest	wide	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 part	amod
29	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 goes	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 route	punct
31	like	like	SCONJ	_	34 does	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 equator	det
33	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 does	nsubj
34	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 goes	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 passes	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	44 passes	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 flight	det
38	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 passes	nsubj
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 London	case
40	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 flight	nmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 Los	case
42	Los	Los	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 flight	nmod
43	Angeles	Angeles	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Los	flat
44	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 part	parataxis
45	over	over	ADP	_	46 Greenland	case
46	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 passes	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 Canada	cc
48	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 Canada	amod
49	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Greenland	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 part	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the shortest route between two places on a globe	part		of a great circle	tree rules
2	go	present	a circle	all way	the globe's widest part		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round part=Initial_Location
3	do	present	the equator				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pass	present	a flight from London to Los		Greenland and northern Canada		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over greenland=Location

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:13.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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