Test 4 · ★ · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland

What would happen if everyone in Britain spoke exactly the same way?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: happen, speak · To what, where: same way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 spoke	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 spoke	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Britain	case
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 everyone	nmod
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 way	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoke	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone	the same way					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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

Nothing, because they already all speak exactly the same way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 speak	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 speak	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 speak	nsubj
5	already	already	ADV	_	7 speak	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 speak	advmod
7	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	11 way	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 speak	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	they	the same way					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Everyone would have to learn RP from the King himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 learn	mark
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	RP	rp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learn	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 King	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 learn	obl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 King	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Everyone						tree rules
2	learn	to-infinitive	Everyone not said here	RP				from the King King	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rp=Topic from king=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

We'd lose lots of local words and history, like ginnel, howay and craic

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 words	case
6	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lots	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 history	cc
9	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 words	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ginnel	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 ginnel	case
12	ginnel	ginnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 howay	punct
14	howay	howay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ginnel	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 craic	cc
16	craic	craic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ginnel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	We	lots of local words and history				like ginnel and howay and craic	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality

Option 4

Nobody would ever understand a single word again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 understand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	Nobody	a single word			ever; again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

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