Exam question 2 · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland

Identify the proportion of the British population estimated to employ Received Pronunciation as a natural accent.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, estimate, employ, receive · To what, where: proportion, British population, Received Pronunciation

This is exam question 2 of lesson 18 «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» of the language 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 proportion	det
3	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 population	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 population	det
6	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 population	amod
7	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proportion	nmod
8	estimated	estimate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 population	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 employ	mark
10	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 estimated	xcomp
11	Received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 Pronunciation	amod
12	Pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 employ	obj
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 accent	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 accent	det
15	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 accent	amod
16	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 employ	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the proportion of the British population		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent proportion=Theme
2	estimate	participle		the British population not said here		vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	employ	to-infinitive		Received Pronunciation	as a natural accent	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent pronunciation=Theme as accent=Attribute
4	receive	participle				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Approximately ninety in every hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 ninety	advmod
2	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hundred	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ninety	nmod

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

Option 2

The entire population without exception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 population	det
2	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 population	amod
3	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 exception	case
5	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 population	nmod

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

Option 3

Precisely one half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Precisely	precisely	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 half	nummod
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Some two or three in every hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 three	cc
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 two	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hundred	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hundred	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 three	nmod

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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