Test 9 · ★★★ · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

What would happen if you tried to make a Mercator map that reached the North Pole?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Mercator map · What happens: happen, try, make, reach · To what, where: Mercator map, North Pole

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 tried	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 map	det
10	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 map	compound
11	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 reached	nsubj
13	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 map	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Pole	det
15	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Pole	compound
16	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	you		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a Mercator map	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset map=Product
4	reach	past	a Mercator map	the North Pole	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pole=Theme

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

It would show the pole as a tiny dot at the very top

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 show	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pole	det
5	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 dot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dot	det
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dot	amod
9	dot	dot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 top	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 top	advmod
13	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	would	It	the pole		the top		as a tiny dot	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pole=Recipient

Option 2

It would show the pole correctly

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 show	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pole	det
5	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obj
6	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	3 show	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would need an endless height of paper

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 need	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 need	aux
3	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 height	det
5	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 height	amod
6	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 paper	case
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 height	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	It	a endless height of paper					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot height=Theme

Option 4

It would turn into a globe

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 globe	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 globe	det
6	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a globe			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into globe=Trajectory

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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