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title: Why does Romanian look a bit like Italian although they are far apart? — Languages and peoples on the map · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does Romanian look a bit like Italian although they are far apart? Test 1 of lesson 25 «Languages and peoples on the map» 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 wrong.
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# Test 1 · Languages and peoples on the map

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Why does Romanian look a bit like Italian although they are far apart?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Romanian, they · **What happens:** look, be · **To what, where:** bit

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This is test 1 of lesson 25 «Languages and peoples on the map» 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/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t1:1
# text = Why does Romanian look a bit like Italian although they are far apart?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Romanian	Romanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Italian	Italian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · do-support | Romanian | a bit |  |  |  | like Italian | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bit=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | apart, far *property* | 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 {#o1}

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Italy once ruled all of Romania until 1900

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t1:o1:1
# text = Italy once ruled all of Romania until 1900
1	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Romania	Romania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	until	until	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | Italy | all |  |  | until 1900 | once *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are not alike at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t1:o2:1
# text = They are not alike at all
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | They |  |  | all |  | alike *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Romanians copied Italian from books

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t1:o3:1
# text = Romanians copied Italian from books
1	Romanians	Romanian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	copied	copy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | past | Romanians |  |  | books |  | italian *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Both grew out of Latin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t1:o4:1
# text = Both grew out of Latin
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow out** | past | Both | Latin |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location latin=Theme |

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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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