Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 2

Mercator's map of 1569 keeps compass directions right, which sailors loved, but it stretches land more and more towards the poles, so Greenland looks as big as Africa.

Who acts: map, sailors, Greenland · What happens: keep, love, stretch, look · To what, where: compass directions, land

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 (map, sailors, 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	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 map	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mercator	case
3	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 keeps	case
5	1569	1569	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 map	nmod
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 directions	compound
8	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keeps	obj
9	right	right	ADV	_	6 keeps	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 loved	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 loved	obj
12	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 loved	nsubj
13	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 directions	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stretches	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 stretches	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stretches	nsubj
17	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keeps	conj
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stretches	obj
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 stretches	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 more	cc
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 more	conj
22	towards	towards	ADP	_	24 poles	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 poles	det
24	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stretches	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looks	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 looks	advmod
27	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 looks	nsubj
28	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keeps	parataxis
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 big	advmod
30	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 looks	xcomp
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 Africa	case
32	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 big	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 keeps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Mercator's map 1569	compass directions	right property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme
2	love	past	sailors	compass directions		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
3	stretch	present	map	land	towards the poles	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Patient towards pole=Recipient
4	look	present	Greenland		big 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:2.

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. 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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