Test 2 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

Why do most Irish people speak English rather than Irish at home?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: most Irish people · What happens: do, speak · To what, where: English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	advcl
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 people	amod
4	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 speak	nsubj
6	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 speak	obj
8	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	10 Irish	cc
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 rather	fixed
10	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 English	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Irish	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	most Irish people not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	present	most Irish people	English					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

Irish was banned by the EU when Ireland joined in 1973

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 EU	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 EU	det
6	EU	EU	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 banned	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 joined	advmod
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 joined	nsubj
9	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1973	case
11	1973	1973	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 joined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive	the EU	Irish					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme
2	join	past	Ireland					in 1973	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1973=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Centuries of English rule, schooling and the famine pushed Irish back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pushed	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 rule	case
3	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rule	amod
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Centuries	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 schooling	punct
6	schooling	schooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 famine	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 famine	det
9	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	conj
10	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pushed	xcomp
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 pushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push back	past	Centuries of English rule and schooling and the famine					irish property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

English is the first official language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 language	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 language	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 language	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 language	amod
5	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 language	amod
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	English	the first official language					tree rules

Option 4

Irish was never spoken in Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spoken	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 spoken	advmod
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Ireland	case
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past · passive		Irish		Ireland			tree rules

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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