--- title: If a village's children all start speaking a big national language,… — Languages and peoples on the map · tree and pragmatics description: If a village's children all start speaking a big national language, what may happen to the village's own language? Test 8 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Languages and peoples on the map](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/) / t8 # Test 8 · Languages and peoples on the map If a village's children all start speaking a big national language, what may happen to the village's own language? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** children, big national language · **What happens:** start, speak, happen · **To what, where:** big national language · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t8:1 # text = If a village's children all start speaking a big national language, what may happen to the village's own language? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 7 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 nsubj _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | a village's children | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | a village's children *not said here* | a big national language | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **happen** | may | a big national language | | | | | to the village's own language | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Nothing, languages never disappear ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t8:o1:1 # text = Nothing, languages never disappear 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 disappear disappear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **disappear** | present | languages | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} It will become the world's most spoken language ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t8:o2:1 # text = It will become the world's most spoken language 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 8 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | future | It | the world's spoken language | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} It may become endangered and die out ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t8:o3:1 # text = It may become endangered and die out 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 endangered endangered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | may | It | | | | | endangered *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **die out** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} It will turn into Latin ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map:t8:o4:1 # text = It will turn into Latin 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | future | It | | | | | into Latin *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into latin=Result | **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. 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