--- title: Flat maps fool us too: you can't peel a ball flat without stretching… — Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts · tree and pragmatics description: Flat maps fool us too: you can't peel a ball flat without stretching it, so common maps stretch places near the poles, and Greenland looks enormous when Africa is really about 14 times bigger. Who acts: Flat maps, you, common maps, Greenland. 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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 maps, you, common maps, Greenland), 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:6 # text = Flat maps fool us too: you can't peel a ball flat without stretching it, so common maps stretch places near the poles, and Greenland looks enormous when Africa is really about 14 times bigger. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 maps map NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fool fool VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 peel peel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 14 without without SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 maps map NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stretch stretch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 near near ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 Greenland Greenland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis 30 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 32 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 34 really really ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 about about ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fool** | present | Flat maps | us | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | | 2 | **not** **peel** | can | you | a ball | | | | flat *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Source | | 3 | **stretch** | gerund | you *not said here* | ball | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **stretch** | present | common maps | places | | the poles | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient | | 5 | **look** | present | Greenland | | | | | enormous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **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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