Exam question 3 · Maps and scale

Identify the sole representation of the Earth that preserves shape, area, distance and direction simultaneously.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sole representation · What happens: identify, preserve, represent · To what, where: sole representation, shape, Earth

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1 «Maps and scale» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 representation	det
3	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 representation	amod
4	representation	representation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 representation	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 preserves	nsubj
9	preserves	preserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 representation	acl:relcl
10	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 preserves	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 area	punct
12	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shape	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 distance	punct
14	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shape	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 direction	cc
16	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shape	conj
17	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	_	9 preserves	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the sole representation of the Earth		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent representation=Theme
2	preserve	present	the sole representation of the Earth	shape and area and distance and direction	simultaneously property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Beneficiary
3	represent			the Earth		nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A physical map

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 map	det
2	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 map	amod
3	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A globe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 globe	det
2	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A portolan chart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chart	det
2	portolan	portolan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chart	amod
3	chart	chart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A political map

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 map	det
2	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 map	amod
3	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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