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description: A shape is stretched three times wider and three times taller. How many times bigger does its area look? Test 2 · ★★★ 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
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

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A shape is stretched three times wider and three times taller. How many times bigger does its area look?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** area · **What happens:** stretch, look · **To what, where:** shape

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This is test 2 · ★★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A shape is stretched three times wider and three times taller.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t2:1
# text = A shape is stretched three times wider and three times taller.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | present · passive |  | a shape |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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:* How many times bigger does its area look?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t2:2
# text = How many times bigger does its area look?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · do-support | shape's area |  |  |  | time |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Six times bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t2:o1:1
# text = Six times bigger
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Nine times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t2:o2:1
# text = Nine times
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twelve times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t2:o3:1
# text = Twelve times
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t2:o4:1
# text = Three times
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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