Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 15

There is no single correct way to centre a world map, and many maps made in East Asia or Australia put the Pacific Ocean in the middle, while some Australian maps put south at the top.

Who acts: single correct way, many maps, Australian maps · What happens: be, centre, make, put · To what, where: world map, many maps, East Asia, Pacific Ocean, middle, top

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 (single correct way, many maps, Australian maps), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 way	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
5	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 centre	mark
8	centre	centre	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 map	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 map	compound
11	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 centre	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 maps	amod
15	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	nsubj
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 maps	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 Asia	case
18	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Asia	compound
19	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 made	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 Australia	cc
21	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Asia	conj
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 is	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Ocean	det
24	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Ocean	compound
25	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 middle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 middle	det
28	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 maps	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 put	mark
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 maps	det
32	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 maps	amod
33	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 put	nsubj
34	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 put	advcl
35	south	south	ADV	_	34 put	advmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 top	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 top	det
38	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no single correct way		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	centre	to-infinitive	no single correct way not said here	a world map			tree rules
3	make	participle		many maps not said here	East Asia or Australia		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	put	infinitive	many maps	the Pacific Ocean	the middle		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme in middle=Destination
5	put	present	some Australian maps		the top	south property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at top=Destination

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:15.

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. 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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