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Test 7 · ★ · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland

Your mate thinks most Brits sound like old BBC newsreaders. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, most Brits · What happens: think, sound, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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 mate thinks most Brits sound like old BBC newsreaders.

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	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	nsubj
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 Brits	amod
5	Brits	brit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sound	nsubj
6	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thinks	ccomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 newsreaders	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 newsreaders	amod
9	BBC	BBC	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 newsreaders	compound
10	newsreaders	newsreader	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sound	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Your mate						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sound	present	most Brits					like old BBC newsreaders	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, everyone in Britain has a Scottish accent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 has	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Britain	case
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 everyone	nmod
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 accent	det
8	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 accent	amod
9	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	everyone	a Scottish accent					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Most British people have regional accents; RP is rare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 people	amod
2	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	regional	regional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 accents	amod
6	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 rare	punct
8	RP	rp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rare	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rare	cop
10	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most British people	regional accents					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Patient
2	is	present	RP					rare property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, because RP is taught in every British school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 taught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 taught	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 taught	mark
4	RP	rp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taught	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taught	aux:pass
6	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 school	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 school	det
9	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 school	amod
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present · passive		RP		every British school			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

Yes, nearly everyone in Britain sounds like the BBC

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 sounds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 everyone	punct
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 everyone	advmod
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 sounds	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Britain	case
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 everyone	nmod
7	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 BBC	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 BBC	det
10	BBC	BBC	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sounds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	everyone					like the BBC	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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