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title: Sam reckons Brazilians speak Spanish «coz it's South America innit».… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam reckons Brazilians speak Spanish «coz it's South America innit». What is right? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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 1 · ★★ · Latin America and the Caribbean

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Sam reckons Brazilians speak Spanish «coz it's South America innit». What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Sam, Brazilians, it · **What happens:** reckon, speak, be · **To what, where:** Spanish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Sam reckons Brazilians speak Spanish «coz it's South America innit».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t1:1
# text = Sam reckons Brazilians speak Spanish «coz it's South America innit».
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Brazilians	Brazilian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	coz	because	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | Sam |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Brazilians | Spanish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  | because America innit | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t1:2
# text = What is right?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Brazilians speak Spanish like their neighbours, with a few Portuguese words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t1:o1:1
# text = Brazilians speak Spanish like their neighbours, with a few Portuguese words
1	Brazilians	brazilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Brazilians | Spanish |  |  |  | like Brazilians's neighbours; with a few Portuguese words | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Brazilians speak Portuguese, because Brazil was a Portuguese colony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t1:o2:1
# text = Brazilians speak Portuguese, because Brazil was a Portuguese colony
1	Brazilians	brazilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Brazilians | Portuguese |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Brazil | a Portuguese colony |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brazilians speak Latin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t1:o3:1
# text = Brazilians speak Latin
1	Brazilians	brazilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Brazilians | Latin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Brazilians speak French

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t1:o4:1
# text = Brazilians speak French
1	Brazilians	brazilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Brazilians | French |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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