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title: Which shows country sizes correctly, a Mercator or a Mollweide map? — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics
description: Which shows country sizes correctly, a Mercator or a Mollweide map? Test 11 · ★★★ 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 right.
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

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Which shows country sizes correctly, a Mercator or a Mollweide map?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** country sizes

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This is test 11 · ★★★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t11:1
# text = Which shows country sizes correctly, a Mercator or a Mollweide map?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Mollweide	Mollweide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present |  | country sizes |  |  |  | correctly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent size=Recipient |

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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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Mollweide, an equal-area map

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t11:o1:1
# text = Mollweide, an equal-area map
1	Mollweide	Mollweide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mercator, a navigation map

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t11:o2:1
# text = Mercator, a navigation map
1	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	navigation	navigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	map	map	NOUN	NN	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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Neither can show any sizes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t11:o3:1
# text = Neither can show any sizes
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | can |  | any sizes |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent size=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Both show sizes correctly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t11:o4:1
# text = Both show sizes correctly
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Both | sizes |  |  |  | correctly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent size=Recipient |

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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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