--- title: A projection is a chosen way of flattening, and each one gives somet… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics description: A projection is a chosen way of flattening, and each one gives something up: true shapes, true sizes, true distances or true directions. Who acts: projection, chosen way, one. 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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 (projection, chosen way, one), 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:1 # text = A projection is a chosen way of flattening, and each one gives something up: true shapes, true sizes, true distances or true directions. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 projection projection NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 flattening flatten VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 appos _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 sizes size NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 distances distance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 directions direction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | participle | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a projection | a chosen way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **flatten** | gerund | a chosen way *not said here* | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **give up** | present | each one | something | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Source | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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