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Test 3 · ★ · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland

A poll says one city's accent is "the worst in Britain". What does that mostly show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: poll, accent, one city · What happens: say, be, accent, do · To what, where: Britain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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 poll says one city's accent is "the worst in Britain".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 poll	det
2	poll	poll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 city	nummod
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accent	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 city	case
7	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worst	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 worst	cop
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 worst	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 worst	det
11	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 says	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Britain	case
13	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 worst	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 worst	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a poll						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	one city's accent			Britain		bad property	tree rules
3	accent		one city						nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: What does that mostly show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 show	det
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 show	advmod
5	show	show	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	do	present							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

People's prejudices, not anything wrong with the accent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prejudices	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 People	case
3	prejudices	prejudice	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 anything	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 anything	advmod
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 prejudices	conj
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 anything	amod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 accent	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 accent	det
10	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prejudice		People						nom prejudice «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

That the accent is the oldest in Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 accent	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 accent	det
3	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oldest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 oldest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oldest	det
6	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Britain	case
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 oldest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that accent			Britain		old property	tree rules

Option 3

That the people there really cannot speak English properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 the	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 speak	nsubj
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 speak	expl
5	really	really	ADV	_	8 speak	advmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 speak	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 speak	advmod
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 speak	obj
10	properly	properly	ADV	_	8 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	can	the people	English		there		properly property	tree rules

Option 4

That the accent is about to disappear for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 accent	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 accent	det
3	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 about	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 disappear	mark
7	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 good	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 disappear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that accent					about property	tree rules
2	disappear	to-infinitive	that accent not said here					for good	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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