Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 9
A Mercator map cannot show the North or South Pole at all, because the stretching would grow without limit there.
Who acts: Mercator map, stretching · What happens: not show, grow · To what, where: North Pole, all
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, stretching), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 map | det |
| 2 | Mercator | Mercator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 map | compound |
| 3 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 show | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 show | advmod |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Pole | det |
| 8 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pole | compound |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 South | cc |
| 10 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 North | conj |
| 11 | Pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 show | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grow | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 grow | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stretching | det |
| 17 | stretching | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grow | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 grow | aux |
| 19 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 show | advcl |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 limit | case |
| 21 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grow | obl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 grow | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show | can | a Mercator map | the North Pole | all | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pole=Recipient | |||
| 2 | grow | would | the stretching | there | without limit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:9.
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 ×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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