Test 2 · ★ · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland
A Geordie lad at footie shouts "Howay, that goal was canny!" How did he find the goal?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Geordie lad, goal, lad · What happens: shout, be, find · To what, where: Howay, goal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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: A Geordie lad at footie shouts "Howay, that goal was canny!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 2 | Geordie | Geordie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lad | compound |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shouts | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 footie | case |
| 5 | footie | footie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lad | nmod |
| 6 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Howay | punct |
| 8 | Howay | Howay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shouts | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 canny | punct |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 goal | det |
| 11 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 canny | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 canny | cop |
| 13 | canny | canny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Howay | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Howay | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shouts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | a Geordie lad at footie | Howay | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent howay=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | that goal | canny property | 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: How did he find the goal?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 find | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 goal | det |
| 6 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · do-support | lad | the goal | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Too far away to see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 away | advmod |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 away | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Really good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 2 good | advmod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Really boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 2 boring | advmod |
| 2 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Very lucky and a bit unfair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 lucky | advmod |
| 2 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 unfair | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unfair | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lucky | conj |
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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