Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 6

Flat maps fool us too: you can't peel a ball flat without stretching it, so common maps stretch places near the poles, and Greenland looks enormous when Africa is really about 14 times bigger.

Who acts: Flat maps, you, common maps, Greenland, Africa · What happens: fool, not peel, stretch, look, be · To what, where: us, ball, places, poles

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 (Flat maps, you, common maps, Greenland), 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	Flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 maps	amod
2	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fool	nsubj
3	fool	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fool	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 fool	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 peel	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 peel	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 peel	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 peel	advmod
10	peel	peel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fool	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ball	det
12	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 peel	obj
13	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 peel	xcomp
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 stretching	mark
15	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 peel	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stretching	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 places	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 stretch	advmod
19	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 maps	amod
20	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stretch	nsubj
21	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 peel	conj
22	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stretch	obj
23	near	near	ADP	_	25 poles	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 poles	det
25	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stretch	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 looks	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 looks	cc
28	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 looks	nsubj
29	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stretch	conj
30	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 looks	xcomp
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 bigger	advmod
32	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 bigger	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 bigger	cop
34	really	really	ADV	_	35 about	advmod
35	about	about	ADV	_	36 14	advmod
36	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 times	nummod
37	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 bigger	obl:unmarked
38	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 looks	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fool	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	present	Flat maps	us				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
2	not peel	can	you	a ball			flat property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Source
3	stretch	gerund	you not said here	ball				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	stretch	present	common maps	places	the poles			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient
5	look	present	Greenland				enormous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	present	Africa			time	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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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