Test 2 · Languages and peoples on the map

why tf do they speak Arabic in Morocco, it's miles from Arabia

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tf, it · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: Arabic, Morocco, miles, Arabia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 speak	advmod
2	tf	tf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 speak	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 speak	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Morocco	case
8	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 speak	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 miles	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 miles	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 miles	cop
12	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 speak	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Arabia	case
14	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 miles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · do-support	tf	Arabic		Morocco			tree rules
2	is a	present	it	miles		Arabia			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

It was brought by the British

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 brought	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	aux:pass
3	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 British	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 British	det
6	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		It				by the British	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Moroccans invented Arabic first and took it east to Arabia later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moroccans	moroccan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 invented	nsubj
2	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 invented	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 invented	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 invented	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	east	east	ADV	_	6 took	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Arabia	case
10	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 invented	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past	Moroccans	Arabic				first, late property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arabic=Result
2	take	past	Moroccans not said here	it	Arabia			east property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to arabia=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Arabic spread across North Africa after the 600s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	5 Africa	case
4	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Africa	compound
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 600s	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 600s	det
8	600s	600	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	2 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	Arabic			North Africa	after the 600s		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across africa=Destination

Option 4

Arabic is spoken everywhere hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spoken	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spoken	aux:pass
3	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spoken	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · passive		Arabic				hot property	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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