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title: Why is Portuguese spoken in Brazil? — Languages and peoples on the map · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is Portuguese spoken in Brazil? Test 5 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 5 · Languages and peoples on the map

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Why is Portuguese spoken in Brazil?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** speak · **To what, where:** Brazil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t5:1
# text = Why is Portuguese spoken in Brazil?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	_
4	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  |  |  | Brazil |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V» |

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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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Brazil is right next to Portugal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t5:o1:1
# text = Brazil is right next to Portugal
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	next	next	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Brazilians chose it in a vote in 2000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t5:o2:1
# text = Brazilians chose it in a vote in 2000
1	Brazilians	brazilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | Brazilians | it |  | a vote |  | in 2000 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Brazil was a Portuguese colony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t5:o3:1
# text = Brazil was a Portuguese colony
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Portuguese grew up in the Amazon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t5:o4:1
# text = Portuguese grew up in the Amazon
1	Portuguese	portuguese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Amazon	Amazon	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 up** | past | Portuguese |  |  | the Amazon |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in amazon=Location |

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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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