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title: It is given that one centimetre upon a map represents two kilometres… — Map reading puzzles · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that one centimetre upon a map represents two kilometres. Determine the real distance represented by five centimetres. Exam question 2 of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Exam question 2 · Map reading puzzles

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It is given that one centimetre upon a map represents two kilometres. Determine the real distance represented by five centimetres.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** one centimetre, you · **What happens:** give, represent, determine · **To what, where:** It, two kilometres, real distance

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/49-map-puzzles/#e2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that one centimetre upon a map represents two kilometres.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:e2:1
# text = It is given that one centimetre upon a map represents two kilometres.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	represents	represent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **represent** | present | one centimetre upon a map | two kilometres |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kilometre=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Determine the real distance represented by five centimetres.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:e2:2
# text = Determine the real distance represented by five centimetres.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the real distance |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Topic |
| 2 | **represent** | participle |  | the real distance *not said here* |  |  |  | by five centimetres | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Ten kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:e2:o1:1
# text = Ten kilometres
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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}

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Seven kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:e2:o2:1
# text = Seven kilometres
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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 {#o3}

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Two and a half kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:e2:o3:1
# text = Two and a half kilometres
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	compound	_	_
5	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Five kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:e2:o4:1
# text = Five kilometres
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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