Test 11 · ★★★ · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

Which shows country sizes correctly, a Mercator or a Mollweide map?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: show · To what, where: country sizes

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sizes	compound
4	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shows	obj
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	2 shows	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Mercator	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Mercator	det
8	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shows	parataxis
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 map	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 map	det
11	Mollweide	Mollweide	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 map	compound
12	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Mercator	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present		country sizes				correctly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent size=Recipient

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

Mollweide, an equal-area map

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mollweide	Mollweide	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 map	punct
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 map	det
4	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 area	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 equal	punct
6	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 map	compound
7	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mollweide	appos

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

Option 2

Mercator, a navigation map

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 map	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 map	det
4	navigation	navigation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 map	compound
5	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mercator	appos

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

Option 3

Neither can show any sizes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	3 show	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 sizes	det
5	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	can		any sizes				neither property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent size=Recipient

Option 4

Both show sizes correctly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obj
4	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	2 show	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Both	sizes				correctly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent size=Recipient

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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