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title: A Mercator map cannot show the North or South Pole at all, because t… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics
description: A Mercator map cannot show the North or South Pole at all, because the stretching would grow without limit there. Who acts: Mercator map, stretching. 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 pra
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# Projections: why Greenland looks huge, sentence 9

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A Mercator map cannot show the North or South Pole at all, because the stretching would grow without limit there.

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**Who acts:** Mercator map, stretching · **What happens:** not show, grow · **To what, where:** North Pole, all

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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, stretching), 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:9
# text = A Mercator map cannot show the North or South Pole at all, because the stretching would grow without limit there.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	Pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
17	stretching	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **show** | can | a Mercator map | the North Pole |  | all |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pole=Recipient |
| 2 | **grow** | would | the stretching |  |  | there |  | without limit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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 ×2. **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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