--- title: Try pressing a piece of orange peel flat: it tears or stretches, and… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics description: Try pressing a piece of orange peel flat: it tears or stretches, and the same happens to the Earth's round skin on any flat map. Who acts: you, piece, same. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, piece, same), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:003-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge.lesson:0 # text = Try pressing a piece of orange peel flat: it tears or stretches, and the same happens to the Earth's round skin on any flat map. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 003-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge.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): no change 1 Try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 pressing press VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 peel peel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 flat flat ADJ RB Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 stretches stretch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 nsubj _ _ 18 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 27 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **press** *not said to happen* | gerund | you *not said here* | a piece of orange peel | | | | flat *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | | 3 | **tear** | present | piece | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stretch** | present | piece *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **happen** | present | the same | | | | | to the Earth's round skin on any flat map | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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](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:003-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge.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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Directions, latitude and longitude, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/16/) - next →: [Projections: why Greenland looks huge, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/)