Test 3 · Languages and peoples on the map
My brother says English and Hindi aren't related at all. Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, English · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 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: My brother says English and Hindi aren't related at all.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 related | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Hindi | cc |
| 6 | Hindi | Hindi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 English | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 related | cop |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 related | advmod |
| 9 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 related | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | My brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | English and Hindi | all | related property | 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.
Sentence 2: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, Hindi is related only to Chinese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 related | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Hindi | Hindi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 related | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 related | cop |
| 5 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 Chinese | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Chinese | case |
| 8 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 related | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Hindi | Chinese | related property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, both are in the Indo-European family
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 family | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 family | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 family | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 family | det |
| 7 | Indo | Indo | X | _ | 9 European | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Indo | punct |
| 9 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 family | amod |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | both | the European family | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, they have no shared roots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 roots | det |
| 6 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 roots | amod |
| 7 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | they | no shared roots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient | ||||
| 2 | share | participle | tree rules |
Option 4
No, Hindi grew out of English
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 grew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | Hindi | Hindi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 English | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 English | case |
| 7 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow out | past | Hindi | English | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location english=Theme |
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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