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Test 3 · ★★★ · The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies

On a Mercator map Greenland looks as big as Africa. What would you see on a globe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Greenland, you · What happens: look, see · To what, where: globe

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies» 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

Sentence 1: On a Mercator map Greenland looks as big as Africa.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 map	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 map	det
3	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 map	compound
4	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	obl
5	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looks	xcomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 Africa	case
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 big	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Greenland					on a Mercator map; big property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on map=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.

Sentence 2: What would you see on a globe?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 see	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 globe	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 globe	det
7	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	you			a globe			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Africa is only about twice as big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 big	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 big	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 twice	advmod
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 big	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Greenland is a little bit bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bit	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bit	amod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Africa is about 14 times bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bigger	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bigger	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 14	advmod
4	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bigger	obl:unmarked
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 4

They are exactly the same size on a globe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 size	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 size	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 size	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 size	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 size	amod
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 globe	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 globe	det
9	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 size	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	the same size		a globe		exactly property	tree rules

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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