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title: Why do online maps care more about street shapes than country sizes? — Projections: why Greenland looks huge · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do online maps care more about street shapes than country sizes? Test 7 · ★★★ 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 7 · ★★★ · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

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Why do online maps care more about street shapes than country sizes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** maps · **What happens:** care · **To what, where:** more

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This is test 7 · ★★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t7:1
# text = Why do online maps care more about street shapes than country sizes?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	online	online	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | present · do-support | maps | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Web Mercator shows the true sizes of all countries perfectly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t7:o1:1
# text = Web Mercator shows the true sizes of all countries perfectly
1	Web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Web Mercator | the true sizes of all countries |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent size=Recipient |

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

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People zoom in to find streets, where shapes must look right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t7:o2:1
# text = People zoom in to find streets, where shapes must look right
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	zoom	zoom	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
9	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **zoom** | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | streets |  |  |  | right *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Topic |
| 3 | **look** | must | shapes |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Streets are bigger than countries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t7:o3:1
# text = Streets are bigger than countries
1	Streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Streets |  |  |  |  | than countries; big *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Country sizes never matter to anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t7:o4:1
# text = Country sizes never matter to anyone
1	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** | present | Country sizes |  |  |  |  | to anyone | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to anyone=Experiencer |

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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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