Test 3 · ★★★ · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

on google maps greenland is like as big as africa so it must be massive right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: maps greenland, greenland · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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	on	on	ADP	_	3 maps	case
2	google	google	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maps	amod
3	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 greenland	compound
4	greenland	greenland	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 big	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 big	case
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 africa	case
10	africa	africa	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	obl
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	15 massive	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 massive	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 massive	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 massive	cop
15	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 big	conj
16	right	right	ADV	_	15 massive	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 big	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	maps greenland					as africa; big property	tree rules
2	is	must	greenland					massive, right property	tree rules

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

No, Greenland is smaller than Wales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 smaller	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 smaller	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smaller	cop
5	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 Wales	case
7	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 smaller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Greenland					than Wales; small property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, they are about the same size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 size	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 size	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 size	cop
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 size	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 size	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 size	amod
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					about the same size	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is big but Africa is about 14 times bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 big	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 big	cop
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 bigger	cc
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bigger	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bigger	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 14	advmod
8	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bigger	obl:unmarked
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 big	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					big property	tree rules
2	is	present	Africa				time	big property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, Greenland is the biggest country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 country	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 country	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 country	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 country	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 country	amod
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Greenland	the biggest country					tree rules

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