Test 1 · ★ · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland

Your mate goes "Scousers talk lazy English, innit." What's the fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Scousers, fair answer · What happens: go, talk, be · To what, where: lazy English

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 18 «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» of the language 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 goes "Scousers talk lazy English, innit."

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 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
5	Scousers	scouser	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	nsubj
6	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	advcl
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 English	amod
8	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 talk	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 English	appos
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk in a quote	present	Scousers	lazy English					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent english=Patient

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's the fair answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fair answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Scousers speak French, not English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scousers	scouser	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 speak	nsubj
2	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 speak	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 English	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 English	advmod
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 French	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	Scousers	French and English					tree rules

Option 2

He's right, Scouse is lazy because people can't be bothered

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	's	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 lazy	punct
5	Scouse	Scouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lazy	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lazy	cop
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 bothered	mark
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bothered	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bothered	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 bothered	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 bothered	aux:pass
13	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lazy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		right property	tree rules
2	is	present	Scouse		lazy property	tree rules
3	not bother	can · passive		people		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Every accent has its own history and rules; none is lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 accent	det
2	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 history	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 history	amod
6	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rules	cc
8	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 history	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lazy	punct
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 lazy	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lazy	cop
12	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every accent	accent's own history and rules					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient
2	is	present	none					lazy property	tree rules

Option 4

He's right, but only when they speak quickly

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	's	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	_	9 speak	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 speak	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 speak	advmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 speak	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 speak	nsubj
9	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present	they					quickly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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