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Test 1 · ★★★ · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

Why would a 1569 sailor care more about correct directions than correct sizes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 3 «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 care	det
4	1569	1569	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 sailor	nummod
5	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 care	compound
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 would	nsubj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 would	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 directions	case
9	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 directions	amod
10	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 more	obl
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 sizes	case
12	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sizes	amod
13	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 directions	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sailors never went near land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 land	amod
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past	Sailors	near land					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme

Option 2

Sizes of countries changed every year in those days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 changed	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 countries	case
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sizes	nmod
4	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changed	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	Sizes of countries				day; year		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Directions are the same on every map ever made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 same	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 same	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 map	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 map	det
7	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 same	obl
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 made	advmod
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 map	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Directions			every map		same property	tree rules
2	make	participle		every map not said here			ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He steered by compass and needed a steady bearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 steered	nsubj
2	steered	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 compass	case
4	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steered	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 needed	cc
6	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 steered	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bearing	det
8	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bearing	amod
9	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steer	past	He					by compass	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by compass=Destination
2	need	past	He not said here	a steady bearing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bearing=Theme

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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