Test 13 · Countries, peoples and languages of the world

my brother says English has the most native speakers. true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, English · What happens: say, have · To what, where: native speakers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 speakers	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 native	advmod
8	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 speakers	amod
9	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 true	punct
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	English	the native speakers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speaker=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

No, Spanish has the most of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 most	det
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 has	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Spanish	the most of all					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, Mandarin Chinese has the most native speakers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Chinese	compound
4	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 speakers	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 native	advmod
8	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 speakers	amod
9	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Mandarin Chinese	the native speakers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speaker=Patient

Option 3

Yes, English has the most native speakers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 speakers	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 native	advmod
7	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 speakers	amod
8	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	English	the native speakers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speaker=Patient

Option 4

Yes, more than any other two together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 more	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 more	punct
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 any	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 more	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 two	amod
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 any	conj
8	together	together	ADV	_	3 more	advmod

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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