--- title: On a Mercator map Greenland looks about as large as Africa, but Afri… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics description: On a Mercator map Greenland looks about as large as Africa, but Africa is really about 14 times larger. Who acts: Greenland, Africa. 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 pragmatics of every --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 7 On a Mercator map Greenland looks about as large as Africa, but Africa is really about 14 times larger. **Who acts:** Greenland, Africa · **What happens:** look, be 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 (Greenland, Africa), 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:7 # text = On a Mercator map Greenland looks about as large as Africa, but Africa is really about 14 times 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Mercator Mercator PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 Greenland Greenland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 16 really really ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 21 . . 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 | **look** | present | Greenland | | | | | on a Mercator map; large *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on map=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Africa | | | | time | large *property* | 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:7`. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/6/) - next →: [Projections: why Greenland looks huge, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/)