Exam question 4 · Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were"…

Ascertain the Standard English equivalent of "I done it".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, I · What happens: ascertain, do · To what, where: English equivalent, equivalent

This is exam question 4 of lesson 38 «Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 equivalent	det
3	Standard	Standard	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 English	compound
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 equivalent	compound
5	equivalent	equivalent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 done	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj
9	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 equivalent	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 done	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the English equivalent					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equivalent=Topic
2	do in a quote	past	I	equivalent					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

I do it yesterday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 do	obj
4	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	I	it			yesterday		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

I have did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I						tree rules
2	do	past	I not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

I doned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 doned	nsubj
2	doned	done	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	done	past	I	it					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

I did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	I	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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