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description: Identify the class of projection whereby the relative areas of all territories are faithfully preserved. Exam question 3 of lesson 3 «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Exam question 3 · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

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Identify the class of projection whereby the relative areas of all territories are faithfully preserved.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, preserve · **To what, where:** class, relative areas

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 3 «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:e3:1
# text = Identify the class of projection whereby the relative areas of all territories are faithfully preserved.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	projection	projection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	whereby	whereby	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	relative	relative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the class of projection |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent class=Theme |
| 2 | **preserve** | present · passive |  | the relative areas of all territories |  |  |  | faithfully, whereby *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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An equal-area projection

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:e3:o1:1
# text = An equal-area projection
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	projection	projection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Web Mercator

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:e3:o2:1
# text = Web Mercator
1	Web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A portolan projection of the Mediterranean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:e3:o3:1
# text = A portolan projection of the Mediterranean
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	portolan	portolan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	projection	projection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **project** |  |  | the Mediterranean |  |  |  |  | nom projection «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A Mercator projection

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:e3:o4:1
# text = A Mercator projection
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	projection	projection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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