Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 8
At 60 degrees north a Mercator map stretches land about twice in each direction, so areas look about four times too big.
Who acts: Mercator map, areas · What happens: stretch, look · To what, where: land, 60 degrees
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 (Mercator map, areas), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 degrees | case |
| 2 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 degrees | nummod |
| 3 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stretches | obl |
| 4 | north | north | ADV | _ | 8 stretches | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 map | det |
| 6 | Mercator | Mercator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 map | compound |
| 7 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretches | nsubj |
| 8 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretches | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 twice | advmod |
| 11 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 stretches | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 direction | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 direction | det |
| 14 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretches | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 look | advmod |
| 17 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 look | nsubj |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stretches | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 four | advmod |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 times | nummod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 look | obl |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 big | advmod |
| 23 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 look | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stretches | 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 | stretch | present | a Mercator map | land | 60 degrees | in each direction; north, twice property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent land=Patient in direction=Topic | ||
| 2 | look | present | areas | time | 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:8.
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 ×1, 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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