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title: The scale tells you how much it was shrunk: 1:50,000 means 1 cm on t… — Maps and scale · tree and pragmatics
description: The scale tells you how much it was shrunk: 1:50,000 means 1 cm on the paper is 50,000 cm, or 500 metres, on the ground. Who acts: scale, 1:50,000, 1 cm. 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 cl
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# Maps and scale, sentence 1

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The scale tells you how much it was shrunk: 1:50,000 means 1 cm on the paper is 50,000 cm, or 500 metres, on the ground.

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**Who acts:** scale, 1:50,000, 1 cm · **What happens:** tell, shrunk, mean, be · **To what, where:** you, scale, ground, 50,000 cm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (scale, 1:50,000, 1 cm), 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:1
# text = The scale tells you how much it was shrunk: 1:50,000 means 1 cm on the paper is 50,000 cm, or 500 metres, on the ground.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	shrunk	shrunk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
11	1:50,000	1:50,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	cm	cm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	50,000	50000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the scale |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **shrunk** | past · passive |  | scale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | 1:50,000 |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | 1 cm on the paper | 50,000 cm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:1`.

**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, 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.

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

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