Test 5 · ★ · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland
A Cockney grandad says "Give us a butcher's at your new phone." What does he want?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cockney grandad, grandad · What happens: say, give, want · To what, where: butcher, us, new phone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 Cockney grandad says "Give us a butcher's at your new phone."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 grandad | det |
| 2 | Cockney | cockney | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grandad | amod |
| 3 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Give | punct |
| 6 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Give | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 butcher | det |
| 9 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Give | obj |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 butcher | case |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 phone | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 phone | nmod:poss |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 phone | amod |
| 14 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Give | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Give | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a Cockney grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | a butcher | us | your new phone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Recipient butcher=Theme at phone=Asset |
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 he want?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 want | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · do-support | grandad | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A sausage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sausage | det |
| 2 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A meat pie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pie | det |
| 2 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pie | compound |
| 3 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A sandwich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sandwich | det |
| 2 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A look
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 look | det |
| 2 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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