Test 9 · ★★ · Accents and dialects around the world
Your mate laughs at a Jamaican kid saying "Mi soon come." What do you tell him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Jamaican kid, you · What happens: laugh, say, come, tell · To what, where: Mi · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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 laughs at a Jamaican kid saying "Mi soon come."
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 laughs | nsubj |
| 3 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 kid | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kid | det |
| 6 | Jamaican | Jamaican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kid | amod |
| 7 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughs | obl |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kid | acl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mi | punct |
| 10 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saying | obj |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 come | advmod |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 saying | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughs | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Your mate | at a Jamaican kid | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a Jamaican kid not said here | Mi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mi=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | a Jamaican kid not said here | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 do you tell him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · do-support | you | Mi | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Patois is a made-up language for songs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patois | patois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 language | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 language | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 language | det |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 language | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 up | punct |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 songs | case |
| 9 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 language | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Patois | a made language | for songs | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Patois is a full language with its own grammar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patois | patois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 language | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 language | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 language | det |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 language | amod |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 grammar | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 grammar | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grammar | amod |
| 9 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 language | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Patois | a full language | with Patois's own grammar | tree rules |
Option 3
Jamaicans speak only French at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamaicans | jamaican | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 French | advmod |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 speak | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speak | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Jamaicans | French | home | tree rules |
Option 4
He's right, it's just English spoken badly by people
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 spoken | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 spoken | aux |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 spoken | advmod |
| 8 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spoken | amod |
| 9 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 right | parataxis |
| 10 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 spoken | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spoken | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present · passive | people | it | badly property | 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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