Test 5 · Languages and peoples on the map

Why is Portuguese spoken in Brazil?

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

This is test 5 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	4 spoken	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux:pass
3	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spoken	compound
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Brazil	case
6	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoken	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · passive				Brazil			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»

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

Brazil is right next to Portugal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 next	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 next	cop
3	right	right	ADV	_	4 next	advmod
4	next	next	ADV	_	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Portugal	case
6	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 next	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Brazil		Portugal			next, right property	tree rules

Option 2

Brazilians chose it in a vote in 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brazilians	brazilian	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chose	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 vote	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vote	det
6	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chose	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 2000	case
8	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 chose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	Brazilians	it		a vote		in 2000	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Brazil was a Portuguese colony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 colony	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 colony	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 colony	det
4	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colony	amod
5	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Brazil	a Portuguese colony					tree rules

Option 4

Portuguese grew up in the Amazon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Portuguese	portuguese	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 grew	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Amazon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Amazon	det
6	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	Portuguese			the Amazon			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in amazon=Location

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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