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title: Equal-area projections such as the Gall-Peters or Mollweide maps sho… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics
description: Equal-area projections such as the Gall-Peters or Mollweide maps show every country at its true size compared with others, but they bend shapes. Who acts: area projections, others. A sentence of the lesson «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 10

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Equal-area projections such as the Gall-Peters or Mollweide maps show every country at its true size compared with others, but they bend shapes.

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**Who acts:** area projections, others · **What happens:** show, compare, bend · **To what, where:** country, true size, shapes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» 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 (area projections, others), 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:10
# text = Equal-area projections such as the Gall-Peters or Mollweide maps show every country at its true size compared with others, but they bend shapes.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	projections	projection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
8	Gall	gall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	Peters	Peters	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Mollweide	Mollweide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
14	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	bend	bend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis
28	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | area projections such Gall Peters or Mollweide  the maps | every country |  | map's true size |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent country=Recipient |
| 2 | **compare** | participle |  | map's true size *not said here* |  |  |  | with others | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with other=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **bend** | present | others *= other* | shapes |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent shape=Material |

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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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**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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

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