Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 7
On a Mercator map Greenland looks about as large as Africa, but Africa is really about 14 times larger.
Who acts: Greenland, Africa · What happens: look, be
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 (Greenland, Africa), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 map | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 map | det |
| 3 | Mercator | Mercator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 map | compound |
| 4 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | obl |
| 5 | Greenland | Greenland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | nsubj |
| 6 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 large | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 large | advmod |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looks | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 Africa | case |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 large | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 larger | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 larger | cc |
| 14 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 larger | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 larger | cop |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 about | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 14 | advmod |
| 18 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 times | nummod |
| 19 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 larger | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 looks | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Greenland | on a Mercator map; large property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on map=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Africa | time | large property | 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:7.
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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