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title: On ordinary flat world maps Greenland looks about as big as Africa,… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: On ordinary flat world maps Greenland looks about as big as Africa, but Africa is about 14 times bigger. Who acts: Greenland, Africa. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, sentence 15

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On ordinary flat world maps Greenland looks about as big as Africa, but Africa is about 14 times bigger.

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**Who acts:** Greenland, Africa · **What happens:** look, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» 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 (Greenland, Africa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:15
# text = On ordinary flat world maps Greenland looks about as big as Africa, but Africa is about 14 times bigger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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): no change
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **look** | present | Greenland |  |  |  |  | on ordinary flat world maps; big *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on map=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Africa |  |  |  | time | 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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**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:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:15`.

**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): no change. **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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