Test 9 · Countries, peoples and languages of the world

Which pair of languages are close relatives?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pair · What happens: be · To what, where: close relatives

This is test 9 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 relatives	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 languages	case
4	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 relatives	cop
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 relatives	amod
7	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 relatives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which pair of languages	close relatives					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

French and Chinese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Chinese	cc
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 French	conj

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

Option 2

Ukrainian and Arabic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Arabic	cc
3	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ukrainian	conj

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

Option 3

English and Japanese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Japanese	cc
3	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 English	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Spanish and Italian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Italian	cc
3	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Spanish	conj

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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