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Test 11 · ★★★ · Is there one proper English? The big arguments

Puzzle: in standard English one negative is enough. Which sentence means the same as "I don't want no dinner" in standard English?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one negative, sentence, I · What happens: be, mean, not want · To what, where: standard English, same, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Is there one proper English? The big arguments» 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: Puzzle: in standard English one negative is enough.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 enough	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 English	case
4	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 English	amod
5	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 enough	obl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 negative	nummod
7	negative	negative	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enough	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 enough	cop
9	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Puzzle	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Puzzle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	one negative			standard English		enough property	tree rules

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: Which sentence means the same as "I don't want no dinner" in standard English?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 want	mark
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 want	advmod
11	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	ccomp
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 dinner	det
13	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 want	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 dinner	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 English	case
16	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 English	amod
17	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 want	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	which sentence	the same					tree rules
2	not want in a quote	present · do-support	I	no dinner		standard English			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme

The options

Option 1

I want no dinner and some

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 dinner	det
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 some	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 want	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	no dinner					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

I don't not want dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	I	dinner					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme

Option 3

I do want some dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 want	aux
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 dinner	det
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	I	some dinner					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

I don't want any dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 dinner	det
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	I	any dinner					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme

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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