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title: Why would a ruler in India use Persian? — Languages and peoples on the map · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would a ruler in India use Persian? Test 6 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 6 · Languages and peoples on the map

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Why would a ruler in India use Persian?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ruler · **What happens:** use · **To what, where:** Persian

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t6:1
# text = Why would a ruler in India use Persian?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | would | a ruler in India | Persian |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persian=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Indians spoke no language of their own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t6:o1:1
# text = Indians spoke no language of their own
1	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Indians | no language of Indians's own |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It was a respected language of poetry and government

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t6:o2:1
# text = It was a respected language of poetry and government
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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	respected	respected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a respected language and government |  |  |  | of poetry | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Persian was the only language spoken anywhere in India

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t6:o3:1
# text = Persian was the only language spoken anywhere in India
1	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Persian | the only language |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  | the only language *not said here* |  | India |  | anywhere *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The British forced it on India when they arrived

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t6:o4:1
# text = The British forced it on India when they arrived
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	British	British	PROPN	NNP	_	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | past | the British | it |  | India |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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