Test 7 · ★★ · Accents and dialects around the world

What would happen if all English speakers used exactly the same words everywhere?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: English speakers · What happens: happen, use · To what, where: same words

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

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 used	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 speakers	det
6	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 speakers	amod
7	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 used	nsubj
8	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 words	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 words	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 used	obj
13	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 used	advmod
14	?	?	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	use a condition, not said to happen	past	all English speakers	the same words				everywhere property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

We'd lose words like prepone, lekker and sweet as, and the stories behind them

The tree, 15 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	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 prepone	case
6	prepone	prepone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lekker	punct
8	lekker	lekker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prepone	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sweet	cc
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lekker	amod
11	as	as	ADP	_	10 sweet	fixed
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stories	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stories	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stories	det
15	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	conj
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stories	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	We	words				like prepone and lekker	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality

Option 2

English would split into seven new languages overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 split	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 split	aux
3	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 languages	case
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 languages	nummod
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 languages	amod
7	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 split	obl
8	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	3 split	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	would	English					into seven new languages result; overnight property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into language=Result

Option 3

Nothing, because English is already exactly the same everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 same	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 English	case
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
6	already	already	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 same	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					everywhere, exactly, same property	tree rules

Option 4

People in Australia would start speaking Spanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 start	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Australia	case
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 People	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 start	aux
5	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 start	xcomp
7	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 speaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	People in Australia						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	gerund	People in Australia not said here	Spanish					tree rules

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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