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Test 8 · ★ · Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were"…

Your teacher, dry: "Innit is great at break time and not so great in a job application." What is she teaching?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: be, not be, teach · To what, where: job application

This is test 8 · ★ 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 teacher, dry: "Innit is great at break time and not so great in a job application."

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 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dry	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dry	punct
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 great	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 great	punct
7	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 great	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 great	cop
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dry	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	compound
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 great	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 great	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 great	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 great	advmod
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 great	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 application	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 application	det
19	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 application	compound
20	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 great	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dry	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Innit				time	great property	tree rules
2	not be in a quote		Innit not said here			a job application			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: What is she teaching?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 teaching	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 teaching	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 teaching	nsubj
4	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 teaching	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present · progressive	Innit						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

That job applications are written in slang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 job	det
2	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applications	compound
3	applications	application	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 written	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 written	aux:pass
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 slang	case
7	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present · passive		job applications		slang			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in slang=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Code-switching for the audience

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Code	code	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 switching	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Code	punct
3	switching	switch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 audience	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 audience	det
6	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 switching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch	gerund						for the audience	vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme for audience=Co-Theme

Option 3

That break time has no rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
2	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	compound
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 rules	det
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	that break time	no rules					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That "innit" is a rude word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 innit	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 innit	punct
3	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 innit	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 word	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that innit	a rude word					tree rules

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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