--- title: A girl in Montreal, Quebec, chats with her neighbours in a language… — Countries, peoples and languages of th… · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Montreal, Quebec, chats with her neighbours in a language that is not English. Which language is it most likely? 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Which language is it most likely? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** language · **What happens:** not be, be This is test 1 of lesson 46 «Countries, peoples and languages of the world» of the world 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/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A girl in Montreal, Quebec, chats with her neighbours in a language that is not English. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:46-countries-peoples-languages:t1:1 # text = A girl in Montreal, Quebec, chats with her neighbours in a language that is not English. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Montreal Montreal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Quebec Quebec PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 chats chat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | a language | | | | | english *property* | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which language is it most likely? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:46-countries-peoples-languages:t1:2 # text = Which language is it most likely? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 6 advmod _ _ 6 likely likely ADV RB _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | which language | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} French ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:46-countries-peoples-languages:t1:o1:1 # text = French 1 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} German ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:46-countries-peoples-languages:t1:o2:1 # text = German 1 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Spanish ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:46-countries-peoples-languages:t1:o3:1 # text = Spanish 1 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Maori ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:46-countries-peoples-languages:t1:o4:1 # text = Maori 1 Maori maori NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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