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title: Common flat world maps stretch places near the poles, so Greenland l… — Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts · tree and pragmatics
description: Common flat world maps stretch places near the poles, so Greenland looks huge; in fact Africa is about 14 times bigger than Greenland. Who acts: Common flat world maps, Greenland, Africa. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths course of Mova's primary school w
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# Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 14

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Common flat world maps stretch places near the poles, so Greenland looks huge; in fact Africa is about 14 times bigger than Greenland.

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**Who acts:** Common flat world maps, Greenland, Africa · **What happens:** stretch, look, be · **To what, where:** places, poles, fact

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths 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 (Common flat world maps, Greenland, Africa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:14
# text = Common flat world maps stretch places near the poles, so Greenland looks huge; in fact Africa is about 14 times bigger than Greenland.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.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	Common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stretch	stretch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **stretch** | present | Common flat world maps | places |  | the poles |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | present | Greenland |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | Africa |  |  | fact | time | than Greenland; big *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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.

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