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title: Which of these sounds could NOT start a Hawaiian word? — Olympiad: real languages and codes · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of these sounds could NOT start a Hawaiian word? Test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 59 «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: real languages and codes

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Which of these sounds could NOT start a Hawaiian word?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** not start · **To what, where:** Hawaiian word

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This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 59 «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the English 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:t8:1
# text = Which of these sounds could NOT start a Hawaiian word?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **start** | could |  | a Hawaiian word |  |  |  | of this sounds | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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s

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:t8:o1:1
# text = s
1	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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m

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:t8:o2:1
# text = m
1	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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k

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:t8:o3:1
# text = k
1	k	K	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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h

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:t8:o4:1
# text = h
1	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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