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Test 10 · ★ · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland

An Aberdeen boy texts "Fit's fer tea?" ("Fer" is for, "tea" is the evening meal.) What's he asking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fer, Fit · What happens: be, ask

This is test 10 · ★ 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: An Aberdeen boy texts "Fit's fer tea?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 texts	det
2	Aberdeen	aberdeen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 texts	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 texts	compound
4	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tea	punct
6	Fit	Fit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fer	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Fit	case
8	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tea	compound
9	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 texts	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 tea	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tea	punct

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

Sentence 2: ("Fer" is for, "tea" is the evening meal.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 meal	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Fer	punct
3	Fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meal	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Fer	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 meal	cop
6	for	for	ADP	_	14 meal	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 meal	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tea	punct
9	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meal	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tea	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 meal	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 meal	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meal	compound
14	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 meal	punct
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 meal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Fer					for the evening meal	tree rules

Sentence 3: What's he asking?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 asking	obj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asking	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asking	nsubj
4	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · progressive	Fit						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Who is coming round for tea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 coming	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 coming	aux
3	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 coming	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 tea	case
6	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coming	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 coming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come round	present · progressive						for tea; round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

What's for dinner tonight?

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	for	for	ADP	_	4 dinner	case
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	obl
5	tonight	tonight	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	tonight						tree rules

Option 3

Is the food fit to eat?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 food	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fit	nsubj
4	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fit	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the food					tree rules
2	fit	present	the food						tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	the food not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Is the tea fit to drink?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tea	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tea	det
3	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fit	obl
4	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fit	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the tea					tree rules
2	fit	present							tree rules
3	drink	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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