--- title: The shortest route between two places on a globe is part of a great… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics description: The shortest route between two places on a globe is part of a great circle, a circle that goes all the way round the globe's widest part, like the equator does, so a flight from London to Los Angeles passes over Greenland and northern Canada. Who acts: shortest route, circle, equator, flight. 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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 (shortest route, circle, equator, flight), 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:13 # text = The shortest route between two places on a globe is part of a great circle, a circle that goes all the way round the globe's widest part, like the equator does, so a flight from London to Los Angeles passes over Greenland and northern Canada. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 shortest short ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 route route NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 globe globe NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 24 round round ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 globe globe NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 widest wide ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ _ 29 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 30 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 31 like like SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obl 34 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Los Los PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 43 Angeles Angeles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 flat _ _ 44 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 45 over over ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Greenland Greenland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the shortest route between two places on a globe | part | | | | of a great circle | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | present | a circle | all way | | the globe's widest part | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round part=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **do** | present | the equator | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pass** | present | a flight from London to Los | | | Greenland and northern Canada | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over greenland=Location | 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:13`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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