Exam question 3 · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

Identify the class of projection whereby the relative areas of all territories are faithfully preserved.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, preserve · To what, where: class, relative areas

This is exam question 3 of lesson 3 «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» 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	3 class	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 projection	case
5	projection	projection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 class	nmod
6	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	15 preserved	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 areas	det
8	relative	relative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 areas	amod
9	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 preserved	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 territories	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 territories	det
12	territories	territory	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 areas	nmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 preserved	aux:pass
14	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	15 preserved	advmod
15	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the class of projection					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent class=Theme
2	preserve	present · passive		the relative areas of all territories				faithfully, whereby property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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 · ✓ the right answer

An equal-area projection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 projection	det
2	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 area	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 equal	punct
4	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 projection	compound
5	projection	projection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Web Mercator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Web	appos

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

Option 3

A portolan projection of the Mediterranean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 projection	det
2	portolan	portolan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 projection	amod
3	projection	projection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Mediterranean	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mediterranean	det
6	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 projection	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	project			the Mediterranean					nom projection «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

A Mercator projection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 projection	det
2	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 projection	compound
3	projection	projection	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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