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Test 6 · ★ · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland

Your Welsh auntie says "I'll put the kettle on now in a minute, love." Should you expect tea this second?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Welsh auntie, you · What happens: say, put on, expect · To what, where: kettle, tea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Your Welsh auntie says "I'll put the kettle on now in a minute, love."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 auntie	nmod:poss
2	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 auntie	amod
3	auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 put	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 put	aux
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kettle	det
10	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	8 put	compound:prt
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 put	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 minute	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 minute	det
15	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 love	punct
17	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	vocative
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your Welsh auntie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put on in a quote	future	Your Welsh auntie = auntie	the kettle			now; minute	love vocative	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent kettle=Goal

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: Should you expect tea this second?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 expect	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 expect	nsubj
3	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expect	obj
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 second	det
6	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expect	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 expect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	should	you	tea			second		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, right this very second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 second	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	right	right	ADV	_	6 second	advmod
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 second	nsubj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 second	advmod
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root

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

Option 2

No, she's saying she won't make tea at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 saying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saying	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
7	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 saying	ccomp
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not make	future	she	tea		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Not quite, it'll be soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 quite	advmod
2	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 be	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 quite	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 be	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 be	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	future	it					soon property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No, she means tomorrow morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 morning	compound
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	she				morning		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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