Test 7 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires

your mate says Brazil speaks Portuguese cos it's near Portugal lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Brazil · What happens: say, speak, be · To what, where: Portuguese · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 33 «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» 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	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 speaks	nsubj
5	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 speaks	obj
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 Portugal	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 Portugal	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Portugal	cop
10	near	near	ADP	_	11 Portugal	case
11	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 speaks	obl
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	your mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other	present	Brazil	Portuguese		tree rules
3	is	present	mate		cos Portugal	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, Portugal colonised it from the 1530s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 colonised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 colonised	nsubj
4	colonised	colonis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 colonised	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 1530s	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 1530s	det
8	1530s	1530	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	4 colonised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	colonis	past	Portugal	it		the 1530s			tree rules

Option 2

No, Brazil was always Spanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 Spanish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Spanish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Spanish	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 Spanish	advmod
6	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Brazil					always, spanish property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, Portugal is in South America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 America	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 America	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 America	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 America	case
6	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 America	compound
7	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Portugal			South America			tree rules

Option 4

Yes, Brazil is right next to Portugal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 next	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 next	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 next	cop
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 next	advmod
6	next	next	ADV	_	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Portugal	case
8	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 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

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