Test 7 · Countries, peoples and languages of the world
If you met people from ten different countries, which language would most of them most likely have learned at school as a second language?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, language · What happens: meet, learn · To what, where: people, ten different countries, school
This is test 7 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 met | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 countries | case |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 countries | nummod |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 countries | amod |
| 8 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 met | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 learned | punct |
| 10 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 11 language | det |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learned | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 learned | aux |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 learned | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 most | nmod |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 likely | advmod |
| 17 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 19 learned | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 learned | aux |
| 19 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 countries | acl:relcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 school | case |
| 21 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learned | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 language | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 language | det |
| 24 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 language | amod |
| 25 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learned | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | you | people | ten different countries | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | learn | would · perfect | which language | school | as a second language; likely property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Latin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
English
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Mandarin Chinese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mandarin | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Welsh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welsh | welsh | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/t7/