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title: Serbian can be written in two ways. Which two? — Languages and peoples on the map · tree and pragmatics
description: Serbian can be written in two ways. Which two? Test 11 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 right.
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# Test 11 · Languages and peoples on the map

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Serbian can be written in two ways. Which two?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** write · **To what, where:** Serbian, two ways

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This is test 11 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Serbian can be written in two ways.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t11:1
# text = Serbian can be written in two ways.
1	Serbian	serbian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | can · passive |  | Serbian |  | two ways |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in way=Destination |

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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:* Which two?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t11:2
# text = Which two?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Chinese characters and Cyrillic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t11:o1:1
# text = Chinese characters and Cyrillic
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Cyrillic	cyrillic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Cyrillic and Latin letters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t11:o2:1
# text = Cyrillic and Latin letters
1	Cyrillic	cyrillic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Arabic and Devanagari

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t11:o3:1
# text = Arabic and Devanagari
1	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Devanagari	Devanagari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Latin letters and Greek

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t11:o4:1
# text = Latin letters and Greek
1	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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