--- title: Eratosthenes measured the Earth around 240 BC, Mercator published hi… — Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Eratosthenes measured the Earth around 240 BC, Mercator published his world map in 1569, Harrison's H4 watch was tested at sea in 1761, and the Greenwich prime meridian was agreed in 1884. Who acts: Eratosthenes, Mercator. 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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 (Eratosthenes, Mercator), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:17 # text = Eratosthenes measured the Earth around 240 BC, Mercator published his world map in 1569, Harrison's H4 watch was tested at sea in 1761, and the Greenwich prime meridian was agreed in 1884. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Eratosthenes Eratosthenes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 measured measure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 around around ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 240 240 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 appos _ _ 7 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 9 Mercator Mercator PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 published publish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 1569 1569 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 Harrison Harrison PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 H4 H4 PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 1761 1761 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 Greenwich Greenwich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 prime prime NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 meridian meridian NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 agreed agree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 1884 1884 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **measure** | past | Eratosthenes | the Earth | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme earth=Value | | 2 | **publish** | past | Mercator | Mercator's world map | | 1569 | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Result | | 3 | **test** | past · passive | | Harrison's H4 watch | | sea | | in 1761 | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · passive | | the Greenwich prime meridian | | 1884 | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | 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:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:17`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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: [Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/63-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks/16/) - next →: [Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/63-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks/)