Test 10 · Languages and peoples on the map
An Arab, an Indian and a Chinese trader meet in a port. What helps them talk?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: them · What happens: help, talk · To what, where: them
This is test 10 of lesson 25 «Languages and peoples on the map» 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
Sentence 1: An Arab, an Indian and a Chinese trader meet in a port.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Arab | det |
| 2 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Indian | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Indian | det |
| 5 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Arab | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 meet | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 meet | det |
| 8 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 meet | amod |
| 9 | trader | trader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | compound |
| 10 | meet | meet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Arab | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 port | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 port | det |
| 13 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arab | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What helps them talk?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 helps | obj |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 helps | xcomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | them = they | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | talk | infinitive | them = they not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A family of languages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 languages | case |
| 4 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 family | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A shared trade language, a lingua franca
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 language | det |
| 2 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 language | amod |
| 3 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 language | compound |
| 4 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 franca | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 franca | det |
| 7 | lingua | lingua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 franca | compound |
| 8 | franca | franca | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 language | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | participle | tree rules |
Option 3
Each speaking his own language louder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 language | det |
| 2 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 language | nsubj |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 language | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 language | amod |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 language | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A different alphabet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 alphabet | det |
| 2 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 alphabet | amod |
| 3 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t10/