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title: my brother says English has the most native speakers. true? — Countries, peoples and languages of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: my brother says English has the most native speakers. true? Test 13 of lesson 46 «Countries, peoples and languages of the world» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 13 · Countries, peoples and languages of the world

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my brother says English has the most native speakers. true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** brother, English · **What happens:** say, have · **To what, where:** native speakers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:46-countries-peoples-languages:t13:1
# text = my brother says English has the most native speakers. true?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
11	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | English | the native speakers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speaker=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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No, Spanish has the most of all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:46-countries-peoples-languages:t13:o1:1
# text = No, Spanish has the most of all
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Spanish | the most of all |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, Mandarin Chinese has the most native speakers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:46-countries-peoples-languages:t13:o2:1
# text = No, Mandarin Chinese has the most native speakers
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Mandarin Chinese | the native speakers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speaker=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, English has the most native speakers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:46-countries-peoples-languages:t13:o3:1
# text = Yes, English has the most native speakers
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | English | the native speakers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speaker=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, more than any other two together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:46-countries-peoples-languages:t13:o4:1
# text = Yes, more than any other two together
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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