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Test 1 · ★★ · Accents and dialects around the world

Your mate goes "all Americans talk the same, like in films, innit." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Americans · What happens: go, talk, be · To what, where: same

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Accents and dialects around the world» 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 goes "all Americans talk the same, like in films, innit."

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 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 Americans	det
6	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 talk	nsubj
7	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talk	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 films	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 films	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 films	case
13	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 films	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk in a quote	present	all Americans	the same				like films and innit	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent same=Patient

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

He's right, every American sounds like a film star

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sounds	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 American	det
6	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sounds	nsubj
7	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	advcl
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 star	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 star	det
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 star	compound
11	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	sound	present	every American					like a film star	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Americans all speak like the Queen used to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 speak	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 speak	advmod
3	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 Queen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 used	obl
7	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 speak	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	7 used	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	Americans						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	past	Americans not said here					like the Queen	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He's right, but only in New York

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 York	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 York	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 York	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 York	case
8	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 York	flat
9	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The US has many regional words and accents, like yinz, y'all, wicked and hella

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 US	det
2	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
5	regional	regional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 accents	cc
8	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 words	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 yinz	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 yinz	case
11	yinz	yinz	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 y'all	punct
13	y'all	y'all	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yinz	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wicked	punct
15	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 yinz	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hella	cc
17	hella	hella	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wicked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the US	many regional words and accents and yinz and y'all					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

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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