Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 16
Like most game maps, the EU5 map leaves out most of the polar regions, and its flat world makes northern lands look larger than on a globe.
Who acts: EU5 map, flat world, northern lands · What happens: leave out, make, look · To what, where: most, northern lands
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 (EU5 map, flat world, northern lands), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 maps | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 maps | amod |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maps | compound |
| 4 | maps | map | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 leaves | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 maps | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 map | det |
| 7 | EU5 | EU5 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 map | compound |
| 8 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaves | nsubj |
| 9 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 leaves | compound:prt |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 leaves | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 regions | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 regions | det |
| 14 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 regions | amod |
| 15 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 most | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 makes | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 makes | cc |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 world | nmod:poss |
| 19 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 world | amod |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | nsubj |
| 21 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 leaves | conj |
| 22 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lands | amod |
| 23 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 makes | obj |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 look | xcomp |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 globe | case |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 globe | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 globe | det |
| 29 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 larger | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave out | present | the EU5 map | most of the polar regions | like most game maps | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | present | map's flat world | northern lands | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | northern lands 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:16.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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