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title: Your teacher, dry: "Innit is great at break time and not so great in… — Standard English and dialect: "we was"… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your teacher, dry: "Innit is great at break time and not so great in a job application." What is she teaching? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 38 «Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 8 · ★ · Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were"…

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Your teacher, dry: "Innit is great at break time and not so great in a job application." What is she teaching?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Innit · **What happens:** be, not be, teach · **To what, where:** job application

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 38 «Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing» of the English 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your teacher, dry: "Innit is great at break time and not so great in a job application."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were:t8:1
# text = Your teacher, dry: "Innit is great at break time and not so great in a job application."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Innit |  |  |  | time | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **be** *in a quote* |  | Innit *not said here* |  |  | a job application |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is she teaching?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were:t8:2
# text = What is she teaching?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	teaching	teach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · progressive | Innit |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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That job applications are written in slang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were:t8:o1:1
# text = That job applications are written in slang
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	applications	application	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present · passive |  | job applications |  | slang |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in slang=Destination |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Code-switching for the audience

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were:t8:o2:1
# text = Code-switching for the audience
1	Code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	switching	switch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the audience | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme for audience=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That break time has no rules

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were:t8:o3:1
# text = That break time has no rules
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | that break time | no rules |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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That "innit" is a rude word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were:t8:o4:1
# text = That "innit" is a rude word
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that innit | a rude word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**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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