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Test 1 · ★ · Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were"…

Your mate laughs at the new kid's Glasgow accent and says "he can't even talk proper." What is wrong with that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, new kid · What happens: laugh, say, not talk, accent, be · To what, where: Glasgow accent · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 38 «Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing» of the English 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Your mate laughs at the new kid's Glasgow accent and says "he can't even talk proper."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughs	nsubj
3	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	10 accent	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kid	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kid	amod
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accent	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 kid	case
9	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 accent	compound
10	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughs	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laughs	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 talk	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 talk	nsubj
15	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 talk	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 talk	advmod
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 talk	advmod
18	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	ccomp
19	proper	properly	ADV	_	18 talk	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 talk	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Your mate			the new kid's Glasgow accent			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	Your mate not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not talk in a quote	can	mate					properly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	accent		the new kid						nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: What is wrong with that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with that; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He is right, accents are mistakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mistakes	punct
5	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mistakes	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mistakes	cop
7	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is a	present	accents	mistakes					tree rules

Option 2

Only the new kid is allowed to laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 allowed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kid	amod
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux:pass
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 laugh	mark
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		the new kid					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	laugh not said to happen	to-infinitive	the new kid not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nothing, because Glasgow speech is not really English at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 English	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 English	mark
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 speech	compound
5	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 English	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 English	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 English	advmod
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 English	advmod
9	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 English	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Glasgow speech			all		english property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's unkind, and every accent and dialect has rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unkind	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unkind	cop
3	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 accent	det
7	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dialect	cc
9	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accent	conj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unkind	parataxis
11	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					unkind property	tree rules
2	have	present	every accent and dialect	rules					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient

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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