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title: At 60 degrees north a Mercator map stretches land about twice in eac… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics
description: At 60 degrees north a Mercator map stretches land about twice in each direction, so areas look about four times too big. Who acts: Mercator map, areas. 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 p
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# Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 8

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At 60 degrees north a Mercator map stretches land about twice in each direction, so areas look about four times too big.

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**Who acts:** Mercator map, areas · **What happens:** stretch, look · **To what, where:** land, 60 degrees

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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 (Mercator map, areas), 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:8
# text = At 60 degrees north a Mercator map stretches land about twice in each direction, so areas look about four times too big.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	north	north	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | present | a Mercator map | land |  | 60 degrees |  | in each direction; north, twice *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent land=Patient in direction=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | present | areas |  |  |  | time | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:8`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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