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title: A map has the scale 1 centimetre = 10 kilometres. A road is 7 centim… — Maps, plans and the compass · tree and pragmatics
description: A map has the scale 1 centimetre = 10 kilometres. A road is 7 centimetres long on the map. How long is the real road? Test 3 of lesson 41 «Maps, plans and the compass» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 3 · Maps, plans and the compass

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A map has the scale 1 centimetre = 10 kilometres. A road is 7 centimetres long on the map. How long is the real road?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** map, road · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** scale centimetre, map, real road

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This is test 3 of lesson 41 «Maps, plans and the compass» of the world 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/world/41-maps-and-compass/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A map has the scale 1 centimetre = 10 kilometres.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:41-maps-and-compass:t3:1
# text = A map has the scale 1 centimetre = 10 kilometres.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	9	case	_	_
9	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a map | the scale centimetre  10 kilometres |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centimetre=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:* A road is 7 centimetres long on the map.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:41-maps-and-compass:t3:2
# text = A road is 7 centimetres long on the map.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a road |  |  | the map |  | 7 centimetres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* How long is the real road?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:41-maps-and-compass:t3:3
# text = How long is the real road?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the real road |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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17 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:41-maps-and-compass:t3:o1:1
# text = 17 kilometres
1	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
700 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:41-maps-and-compass:t3:o2:1
# text = 700 kilometres
1	700	700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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70 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:41-maps-and-compass:t3:o3:1
# text = 70 kilometres
1	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
7 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:41-maps-and-compass:t3:o4:1
# text = 7 kilometres
1	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kilometres	kilometre	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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**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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