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Test 9 · British and American words

Hollie reckons Brits and Americans "basically can't understand each other, it's two languages". Is she right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hollie, it · What happens: reckon, not understand, be · To what, where: Brits, each, two languages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 21 «British and American words» 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: Hollie reckons Brits and Americans "basically can't understand each other, it's two languages".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hollie	Hollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Brits	brit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reckons	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Americans	cc
5	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 reckons	conj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 understand	punct
7	basically	basically	ADV	_	10 understand	advmod
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 understand	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 understand	advmod
10	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	parataxis
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 understand	obj
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 languages	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 languages	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 languages	cop
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 languages	nummod
17	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 understand	obl
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 languages	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Hollie	Brits					tree rules
2	not understand in a quote	can		each				basically property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
3	is a in a quote	present	it	two languages					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: Is she right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADV	_	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, because there are no differences at all between them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 are	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 are	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 are	mark
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 are	expl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 all	cop
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 differences	det
7	differences	difference	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 are	nsubj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 all	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yes, they need interpreters to talk, just like French and English speakers do

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	interpreters	interpreter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 talk	mark
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 French	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 French	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 French	case
11	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 talk	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 speakers	cc
13	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 speakers	amod
14	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 French	conj
15	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	they	interpreters					tree rules
2	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	interpreters not said here					like French and English speakers	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	they not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, but only on the phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 phone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 phone	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 phone	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 phone	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 phone	det
7	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, most differences are small word pairs that are easy to learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 pairs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 differences	amod
4	differences	difference	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pairs	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pairs	cop
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pairs	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pairs	compound
8	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 easy	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 easy	cop
11	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pairs	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 learn	mark
13	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 easy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	most differences	small word pairs					tree rules
2	is	present	small word pairs					easy property	tree rules
3	learn	to-infinitive	small word pairs not said here						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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