Test 10 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

Why is English useful in a country such as Nigeria, where hundreds of languages are spoken?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: country, hundreds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 useful	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 useful	cop
3	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 useful	compound
4	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 useful	obl
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 Nigeria	case
9	as	as	ADP	_	8 such	fixed
10	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 country	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spoken	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 spoken	advmod
13	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spoken	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 languages	case
15	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hundreds	nmod
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 spoken	aux:pass
17	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Nigeria	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				a country such Nigeria		useful property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present · passive		hundreds of languages					tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is the only language anyone there speaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 anyone	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 anyone	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 anyone	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 anyone	amod
5	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anyone	compound
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 anyone	advmod
8	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 anyone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	anyone		there			tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It was chosen in 2025

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chosen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chosen	aux:pass
3	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 2025	case
5	2025	2025	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 chosen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past · passive		It		2025			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It lets people from different language groups understand each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lets	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 understand	mark
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 groups	amod
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 groups	compound
7	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 understand	nsubj
8	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lets	advcl
9	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 understand	obj
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	It	people					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	understand	present	different language groups	each					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

Option 4

Nigerian languages have no words for numbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nigerian	nigerian	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 languages	compound
2	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 numbers	case
7	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nigerian languages	no words				for numbers	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

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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