--- title: A flat map of the round Earth always stretches some places, and the… — The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies · tree and pragmatics description: A flat map of the round Earth always stretches some places, and the common Mercator map makes Greenland look as big as Africa, though Africa is about 14 times bigger. Who acts: flat map, common Mercator map, Greenland, Africa. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flat map, common Mercator map, Greenland, Africa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:040-the-game-map-and-the-real-map-what-eu5-simplifies.lesson:9 # text = A flat map of the round Earth always stretches some places, and the common Mercator map makes Greenland look as big as Africa, though Africa is about 14 times bigger. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 040-the-game-map-and-the-real-map-what-eu5-simplifies.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 9 advmod _ _ 9 stretches stretch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 Mercator Mercator PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 Greenland Greenland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl 23 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 though though SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 27 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **stretch** | present | a flat map of the round Earth | some places | | | | always *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | the common Mercator map | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | present | Greenland | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | Africa | | | | time | big *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. 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