--- title: There is no single correct way to centre a world map, and many maps… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics description: There is no single correct way to centre a world map, and many maps made in East Asia or Australia put the Pacific Ocean in the middle, while some Australian maps put south at the top. Who acts: single correct way, many maps, Australian maps. 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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 (single correct way, many maps, Australian maps), 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:15 # text = There is no single correct way to centre a world map, and many maps made in East Asia or Australia put the Pacific Ocean in the middle, while some Australian maps put south at the top. # 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 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 4 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 correct correct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 centre centre VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 maps map NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 32 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 maps map NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 put put VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 35 south south ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . 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 | **be** | present | no single correct way | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **centre** | to-infinitive | no single correct way *not said here* | a world map | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | participle | | many maps *not said here* | | East Asia or Australia | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | many maps | the Pacific Ocean | | the middle | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme in middle=Destination | | 5 | **put** | present | some Australian maps | | | the top | | south *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at top=Destination | 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:15`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Projections: why Greenland looks huge, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/14/) - next →: [Projections: why Greenland looks huge, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/)