Test 1 · Countries, peoples and languages of the world
A girl in Montreal, Quebec, chats with her neighbours in a language that is not English. Which language is it most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: language · What happens: not be, be
This is test 1 of lesson 46 «Countries, peoples and languages of the world» of the world 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: A girl in Montreal, Quebec, chats with her neighbours in a language that is not English.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Montreal | case |
| 4 | Montreal | Montreal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Quebec | punct |
| 6 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Montreal | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chats | punct |
| 8 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 girl | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 neighbours | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 11 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chats | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 language | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 language | det |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neighbours | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 English | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 English | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 English | advmod |
| 18 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 language | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 girl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | a language | english 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: Which language is it most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 language | det |
| 2 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 likely | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 likely | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 likely | nsubj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 likely | advmod |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which language | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
French
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
German
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Spanish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Maori
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maori | maori | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
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