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description: What would happen if you tried to make a Mercator map that reached the North Pole? Test 9 · ★★★ 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 9 · ★★★ · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

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What would happen if you tried to make a Mercator map that reached the North Pole?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Mercator map · **What happens:** happen, try, make, reach · **To what, where:** Mercator map, North Pole

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t9:1
# text = What would happen if you tried to make a Mercator map that reached the North Pole?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **try** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a Mercator map |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset map=Product |
| 4 | **reach** | past | a Mercator map | the North Pole |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pole=Theme |

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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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It would show the pole as a tiny dot at the very top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t9:o1:1
# text = It would show the pole as a tiny dot at the very top
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dot	dot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | would | It | the pole |  | the top |  | as a tiny dot | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pole=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would show the pole correctly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t9:o2:1
# text = It would show the pole correctly
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It would need an endless height of paper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t9:o3:1
# text = It would need an endless height of paper
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | would | It | a endless height of paper |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot height=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would turn into a globe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge:t9:o4:1
# text = It would turn into a globe
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	globe	globe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  | a globe |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into globe=Trajectory |

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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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