Test 12 · Countries, peoples and languages of the world

why's spanish n italian sound kinda the same

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: spanish n italian sound

This is test 12 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sound	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sound	cop
3	spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	amod
4	n	n	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	amod
5	italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	amod
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		spanish n italian sound				same 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Both grew from German

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 German	case
4	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Both					from German	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from german=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Both grew from Latin, so they are Romance languages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Latin	case
4	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 languages	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 languages	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 languages	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 languages	cop
9	Romance	romance	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 languages	amod
10	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Both					from Latin	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from latin=Patient
2	is a	present	they	Romance languages					tree rules

Option 3

They borrowed words from English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 borrowed	nsubj
2	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 borrowed	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 English	case
5	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 borrowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	past	They	words		English			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent word=Theme from english=Source

Option 4

Spain and Italy have always shared one single language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shared	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Italy	cc
3	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Spain	conj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shared	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 shared	advmod
6	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 language	nummod
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 language	amod
9	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present · perfect	Spain and Italy	one single language				always property	tree rules

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