Test 7 · ★★★ · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

Why do online maps care more about street shapes than country sizes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maps · What happens: care · To what, where: more

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
3	online	online	ADV	_	2 do	advmod
4	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 care	nsubj
5	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 care	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 shapes	case
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shapes	compound
9	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 more	obl
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 sizes	case
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sizes	compound
12	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shapes	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	present · do-support	maps	more					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 · ← Mova's choice

Web Mercator shows the true sizes of all countries perfectly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mercator	compound
2	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sizes	det
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sizes	amod
6	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 countries	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 countries	det
9	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sizes	nmod
10	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 shows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Web Mercator	the true sizes of all countries				perfectly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent size=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

People zoom in to find streets, where shapes must look right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 zoom	nsubj
2	zoom	zoom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	SCONJ	_	5 find	mark
4	to	to	PART	_	5 find	mark
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 zoom	advcl
6	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 look	advmod
9	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 look	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 look	aux
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 streets	acl
12	right	right	ADV	_	5 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	zoom	present	People			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	People not said here	streets	right property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Topic
3	look	must	shapes			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Streets are bigger than countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bigger	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bigger	cop
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 countries	case
5	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Streets					than countries; big property	tree rules

Option 4

Country sizes never matter to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sizes	compound
2	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 matter	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 anyone	case
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present	Country sizes					to anyone	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to anyone=Experiencer

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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