Exam question 4 · Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukra…
State the language from which English obtained the words "pyjamas", "shampoo" and "bungalow".
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: English · What happens: obtain · To what, where: words, State language
This is exam question 4 of lesson 24 «Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and more» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 language | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 language | det |
| 3 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 obtained | obl |
| 6 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 obtained | nsubj |
| 7 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 language | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 obtained | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pyjamas | punct |
| 11 | pyjamas | pyjama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 words | appos |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pyjamas | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shampoo | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 shampoo | punct |
| 15 | shampoo | shampoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obtained | parataxis |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 shampoo | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bungalow | cc |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bungalow | punct |
| 19 | bungalow | bungalow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obtained | conj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bungalow | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 language | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past | English | the words | the State language | 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
Hindi and Urdu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hindi | Hindi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Urdu | cc |
| 3 | Urdu | Urdu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hindi | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ukrainian
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Arabic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Japanese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/e4/