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title: Why would a 1569 sailor care more about correct directions than corr… — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would a 1569 sailor care more about correct directions than correct sizes? Test 1 · ★★★ 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★★★ · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

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Why would a 1569 sailor care more about correct directions than correct sizes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗

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This is test 1 · ★★★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t1:1
# text = Why would a 1569 sailor care more about correct directions than correct sizes?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	1569	1569	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sailors never went near land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t1:o1:1
# text = Sailors never went near land
1	Sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past | Sailors | near land |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sizes of countries changed every year in those days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t1:o2:1
# text = Sizes of countries changed every year in those days
1	Sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | Sizes of countries |  |  |  | day; year |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Directions are the same on every map ever made

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t1:o3:1
# text = Directions are the same on every map ever made
1	Directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Directions |  |  | every map |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | every map *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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He steered by compass and needed a steady bearing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t1:o4:1
# text = He steered by compass and needed a steady bearing
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	steered	steer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steer** | past | He |  |  |  |  | by compass | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by compass=Destination |
| 2 | **need** | past | He *not said here* | a steady bearing |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bearing=Theme |

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