--- title: Russia covers about 17 million square kilometres, but Africa covers… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics description: Russia covers about 17 million square kilometres, but Africa covers about 30 million, so Africa is almost twice as big, though Mercator makes Russia look larger. Who acts: Russia, Africa, Mercator. 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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 (Russia, Africa, Mercator), 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:14 # text = Russia covers about 17 million square kilometres, but Africa covers about 30 million, so Africa is almost twice as big, though Mercator makes Russia look larger. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 4 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nummod 5 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 14 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl:unmarked 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 17 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 almost almost ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 advmod _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 though though SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 Mercator Mercator PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 27 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present | Russia | million square kilometres | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent kilometre=Destination | | 2 | **cover** | present | Africa | 30 million | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent million=Destination | | 3 | **is** | present | Africa | | | | | big, twice *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | Mercator | Russia | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **look** | infinitive | Russia *not said here* | | | | | large *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:14`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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