Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 14

Russia covers about 17 million square kilometres, but Africa covers about 30 million, so Africa is almost twice as big, though Mercator makes Russia look larger.

Who acts: Russia, Africa, Mercator · What happens: cover, be, make, look · To what, where: million square kilometres, 30 million, Russia

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 (Russia, Africa, Mercator), 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	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 covers	nsubj
2	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 million	advmod
4	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 million	compound
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 kilometres	nummod
6	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kilometres	compound
7	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 covers	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 covers	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 covers	cc
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 covers	nsubj
11	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 covers	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 million	advmod
13	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 million	compound
14	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 covers	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 big	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	22 big	advmod
17	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 big	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 big	cop
19	almost	almost	ADV	_	20 twice	advmod
20	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 big	advmod
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 big	advmod
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 covers	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 makes	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 makes	mark
25	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 makes	nsubj
26	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 covers	advcl
27	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 makes	obj
28	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 makes	xcomp
29	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 look	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 covers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	present	Russia	million square kilometres		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent kilometre=Destination
2	cover	present	Africa	30 million		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent million=Destination
3	is	present	Africa		big, twice property	tree rules
4	make	present	Mercator	Russia		tree rules
5	look	infinitive	Russia not said here		large property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:14.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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