--- title: Mercator's map of 1569 keeps compass directions right, which sailors… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics description: Mercator's map of 1569 keeps compass directions right, which sailors loved, but it stretches land more and more towards the poles, so Greenland looks as big as Africa. Who acts: map, sailors, Greenland. 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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 (map, sailors, 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:2 # text = Mercator's map of 1569 keeps compass directions right, which sailors loved, but it stretches land more and more towards the poles, so Greenland looks as big as Africa. # 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 1 Mercator Mercator PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 1569 1569 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nummod 6 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 directions direction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 right right ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 12 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stretches stretch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 22 towards towards ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 Greenland Greenland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 29 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | Mercator's map 1569 | compass directions | | | | right *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | | 2 | **love** | past | sailors | compass directions | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | | 3 | **stretch** | present | map | land | | | | towards the poles | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Patient towards pole=Recipient | | 4 | **look** | present | Greenland | | | | | big *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:2`. **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. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/1/) - next →: [Projections: why Greenland looks huge, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/)