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Test 4 · Countries, peoples and languages of the world

A boy in London notices that the German word Haus looks like the English house. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, German word · What happens: notice, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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 boy in London notices that the German word Haus looks like the English house.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notices	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 London	case
4	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 looks	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
8	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 word	amod
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looks	nsubj
10	Haus	Haus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 word	appos
11	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 notices	ccomp
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
14	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	amod
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looks	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 notices	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	present	a boy in London						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	present	the German word					like the English house	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

English took all its words from German last century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 words	det:predet
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 words	nmod:poss
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 century	case
7	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 century	amod
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 century	amod
9	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	English	its words			century		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	word		its = it						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

English and German are related Germanic languages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 languages	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 German	cc
3	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 English	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 languages	cop
5	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 languages	amod
6	Germanic	germanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 languages	amod
7	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	English	related Germanic languages					tree rules

Option 3

All languages in the world have the same words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 languages	det
2	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 languages	nmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 words	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	all languages in the world	the same words					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

Option 4

German is a dialect of English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	German	german	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dialect	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dialect	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dialect	det
4	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 English	case
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dialect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	German	a dialect				of English	tree rules

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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