Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 14

Common flat world maps stretch places near the poles, so Greenland looks huge; in fact Africa is about 14 times bigger than Greenland.

Who acts: Common flat world maps, Greenland, Africa · What happens: stretch, look, be · To what, where: places, poles, fact

This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths 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 (Common flat world maps, 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	Common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maps	amod
2	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maps	amod
3	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maps	compound
4	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stretch	nsubj
5	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stretch	obj
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 poles	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poles	det
9	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 places	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looks	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 looks	advmod
12	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 looks	nsubj
13	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stretch	parataxis
14	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looks	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 stretch	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 fact	case
17	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bigger	obl
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 bigger	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 bigger	cop
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 14	advmod
21	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 times	nummod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bigger	obl:unmarked
23	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 stretch	parataxis
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 Greenland	case
25	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 bigger	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stretch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	present	Common flat world maps	places	the poles			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient
2	look	present	Greenland				huge property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	Africa		fact	time	than Greenland; big 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:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:14.

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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