Test 8 · ★★★ · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

Why is Antarctica often a long white strip at the bottom of maps?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Antarctica · What happens: be, strip · To what, where: bottom

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 strip	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	8 strip	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 strip	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strip	amod
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strip	amod
8	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	parataxis
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 bottom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottom	det
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strip	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 maps	case
13	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bottom	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						why property	tree rules
2	strip		Antarctica			the bottom of maps		often 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 · ← Mova's choice

Antarctica really is a long thin strip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	really	really	ADV	_	7 strip	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 strip	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 strip	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strip	amod
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strip	amod
7	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Antarctica	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a long thin strip					tree rules

Option 2

It is drawn small to save space

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 drawn	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drawn	aux:pass
3	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drawn	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 save	mark
6	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	present · passive		It				small property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	save	to-infinitive		space					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme

Option 3

Snow makes it look wider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Snow	it					tree rules
2	look	infinitive						wide property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The projection stretches it enormously sideways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 projection	det
2	projection	projection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretches	nsubj
3	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stretches	obj
5	enormously	enormously	ADV	_	3 stretches	advmod
6	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	3 stretches	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	present	the projection	it				enormously, sideways property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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