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title: A map scale of 1:50,000 means that 1 cm on the map stands for 50,000… — Maps and scale · tree and pragmatics
description: A map scale of 1:50,000 means that 1 cm on the map stands for 50,000 cm, which is 500 metres, on the real ground. Who acts: map scale, 1 cm, 50,000 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 clau
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# Maps and scale, sentence 6

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A map scale of 1:50,000 means that 1 cm on the map stands for 50,000 cm, which is 500 metres, on the real ground.

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**Who acts:** map scale, 1 cm, 50,000 cm · **What happens:** mean, stand, be · **To what, where:** 500 metres, real ground · **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 (map scale, 1 cm, 50,000 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:6
# text = A map scale of 1:50,000 means that 1 cm on the map stands for 50,000 cm, which is 500 metres, on the real 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1:50,000	1:50,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	cm	cm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	50,000	50000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **mean** | present | a map scale of 1:50,000 |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | present | 1 cm on the map |  |  |  |  | for 50,000 cm | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for cm=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | 50,000 cm | 500 metres |  | the real ground |  |  | 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: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): 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.

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

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