--- title: Gerardus Mercator published his famous world map in 1569, and on it… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics description: Gerardus Mercator published his famous world map in 1569, and on it a straight line is a line of constant compass bearing. Who acts: Gerardus, straight line. A sentence of the lesson «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Projections: why Greenland looks huge](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/) / 6 # Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 6 Gerardus Mercator published his famous world map in 1569, and on it a straight line is a line of constant compass bearing. **Who acts:** Gerardus, straight line · **What happens:** publish, be · **To what, where:** famous world map, 1569, line, map 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 (Gerardus, straight line), 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:6 # text = Gerardus Mercator published his famous world map in 1569, and on it a straight line is a line of constant compass bearing. # 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 Gerardus Gerardus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Mercator Mercator PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 published publish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 1569 1569 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 constant constant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 bearing bearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **publish** | past | Gerardus | Gerardus's famous world map | | 1569 | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Result | | 2 | **is a** | present | a straight line | a line | | map | | of constant compass bearing | tree rules | 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:6`. **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/). - ← previous: [Projections: why Greenland looks huge, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/5/) - next →: [Projections: why Greenland looks huge, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/)