Test 6 · Languages and peoples on the map

Why would a ruler in India use Persian?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ruler · What happens: use · To what, where: Persian

This is test 6 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	7 use	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 use	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ruler	det
4	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 India	case
6	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ruler	nmod
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 use	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	would	a ruler in India	Persian					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persian=Patient

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

Indians spoke no language of their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 language	det
4	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 language	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Indians	no language of Indians's own					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was a respected language of poetry and government

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	5 language	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 language	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 language	det
4	respected	respected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 language	amod
5	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 poetry	case
7	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 language	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 government	cc
9	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 language	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a respected language and government				of poetry	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Persian was the only language spoken anywhere in India

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 language	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 language	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 language	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 language	amod
5	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 language	acl
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 spoken	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 India	case
9	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Persian	the only language					tree rules
2	speak speech: other	participle		the only language not said here		India		anywhere property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The British forced it on India when they arrived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 British	det
2	British	British	PROPN	_	3 forced	nsubj
3	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forced	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 India	case
6	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forced	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 arrived	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 arrived	nsubj
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forced	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	past	the British	it		India			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	arrive	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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