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title: Ollie from Ohio asks why Canadian cereal boxes have French on them — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie from Ohio asks why Canadian cereal boxes have French on them Test 1 of lesson 39 «Canada: a short story» of the history 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 · Canada: a short story

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Ollie from Ohio asks why Canadian cereal boxes have French on them

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ollie, Canadian cereal boxes · **What happens:** ask, have · **To what, where:** French · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 39 «Canada: a short story» of the history 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/history/39-canada-a-short-story/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t1:1
# text = Ollie from Ohio asks why Canadian cereal boxes have French on them
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Ollie from Ohio |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | Canadian cereal boxes | French |  |  |  | on them *= they* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=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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The cereal is made in Paris and shipped all the way across the Atlantic to Canada

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t1:o1:1
# text = The cereal is made in Paris and shipped all the way across the Atlantic to Canada
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shipped	ship	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	across	across	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | the cereal |  | Paris |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **ship** | past |  | all way | Canada | the Atlantic |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to canada=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is a mistake by the factory

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t1:o2:1
# text = It is a mistake by the factory
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a mistake |  |  |  | by the factory | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
French is the only language in Canada

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t1:o3:1
# text = French is the only language in Canada
1	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | French | the only language |  | Canada |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Canada has two official languages, English and French, from its French history

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t1:o4:1
# text = Canada has two official languages, English and French, from its French history
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Canada | two official languages |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient |

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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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