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title: A map is the world shrunk by the same amount everywhere, so a ruler… — Maps and scale · tree and pragmatics
description: A map is the world shrunk by the same amount everywhere, so a ruler on paper can still measure real distances. Who acts: map, ruler. A sentence of the lesson «Maps and scale» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maps and scale, sentence 0

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A map is the world shrunk by the same amount everywhere, so a ruler on paper can still measure real distances.

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**Who acts:** map, ruler · **What happens:** be, shrink, measure · **To what, where:** world, real distances

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Maps and scale» 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 (map, ruler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:001-maps-and-scale.lesson:0
# text = A map is the world shrunk by the same amount everywhere, so a ruler on paper can still measure real distances.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 001-maps-and-scale.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	shrunk	shrink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	measure	measure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
21	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	distances	distance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a map | the world |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shrink** | participle |  | the world *not said here* |  |  |  | by the same amount; everywhere *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **measure** | can | a ruler on paper | real distances |  |  | still |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme distance=Value |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:001-maps-and-scale.lesson:0`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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