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title: A map has blue lines and blue patches. Without the key, what is your… — Maps and scale · tree and pragmatics
description: A map has blue lines and blue patches. Without the key, what is your best guess? Test 11 of lesson 1 «Maps and scale» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · Maps and scale

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A map has blue lines and blue patches. Without the key, what is your best guess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** map, key · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** blue lines, best guess

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This is test 11 of lesson 1 «Maps and scale» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/1-maps-and-scale/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A map has blue lines and blue patches.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:1-maps-and-scale:t11:1
# text = A map has blue lines and blue patches.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a map | blue lines and blue patches |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Without the key, what is your best guess?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:1-maps-and-scale:t11:2
# text = Without the key, what is your best guess?
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	guess	guess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the key and your best guess | your best guess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Motorways and car parks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:1-maps-and-scale:t11:o1:1
# text = Motorways and car parks
1	Motorways	motorway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Railways and stations

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:1-maps-and-scale:t11:o2:1
# text = Railways and stations
1	Railways	railway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Rivers and lakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:1-maps-and-scale:t11:o3:1
# text = Rivers and lakes
1	Rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Borders and capitals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:1-maps-and-scale:t11:o4:1
# text = Borders and capitals
1	Borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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