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title: Online maps such as Google Maps use a version called Web Mercator, w… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics
description: Online maps such as Google Maps use a version called Web Mercator, which keeps the shapes of small areas such as streets right when you zoom in, but makes Greenland look enormous when you zoom out. Who acts: Online maps, version, you, Greenland. A sentence of the lesson «Projections: why Greenland l
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# Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 12

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Online maps such as Google Maps use a version called Web Mercator, which keeps the shapes of small areas such as streets right when you zoom in, but makes Greenland look enormous when you zoom out.

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**Who acts:** Online maps, version, you, Greenland · **What happens:** use, call, keep, zoom in, make, look · **To what, where:** version, shapes, Greenland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Online maps, version, you, Greenland), 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:12
# text = Online maps such as Google Maps use a version called Web Mercator, which keeps the shapes of small areas such as streets right when you zoom in, but makes Greenland look enormous when you zoom out.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	Google	Google	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Maps	Maps	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
7	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	Web	web	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	right	right	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	zoom	zoom	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
32	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	zoom	zoom	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **use** | present | Online maps such Google Maps | a version |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a version *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | present | a version | the shapes of small areas such streets |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
| 4 | **zoom in** | present | you |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | present | a version *not said here* | Greenland |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | infinitive | Greenland *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enormous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **zoom out** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:003-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge.lesson:12`.

**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, 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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