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title: No projection is wrong and none is perfect; the clever question is a… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics
description: No projection is wrong and none is perfect; the clever question is always what this map was made for. Who acts: projection, none, clever question. A sentence of the lesson «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 4

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No projection is wrong and none is perfect; the clever question is always what this map was made for.

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**Who acts:** projection, none, clever question · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** map

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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 (projection, none, clever question), 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:4
# text = No projection is wrong and none is perfect; the clever question is always what this map was made for.
# 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): no change
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	projection	projection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	parataxis	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no projection |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | none |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the clever question |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive |  | this map |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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