Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 6
Gerardus Mercator published his famous world map in 1569, and on it a straight line is a line of constant compass bearing.
Who acts: Gerardus, straight line · What happens: publish, be · To what, where: famous world map, 1569, line, map
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 (Gerardus, straight line), 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 | Gerardus | Gerardus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 published | nsubj |
| 2 | Mercator | Mercator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gerardus | flat |
| 3 | published | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 map | nmod:poss |
| 5 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 map | amod |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 map | compound |
| 7 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 published | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1569 | case |
| 9 | 1569 | 1569 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 published | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 line | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 line | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 line | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 line | det |
| 15 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 line | amod |
| 16 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 line | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 line | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 line | det |
| 19 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 published | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bearing | case |
| 21 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bearing | amod |
| 22 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bearing | compound |
| 23 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 line | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 published | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | past | Gerardus | Gerardus's famous world map | 1569 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Result | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a straight line | a line | map | of constant compass bearing | tree rules |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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