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description: Identify the proportion of the British population estimated to employ Received Pronunciation as a natural accent. Exam question 2 of lesson 18 «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Exam question 2 · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland

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Identify the proportion of the British population estimated to employ Received Pronunciation as a natural accent.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, estimate, employ, receive · **To what, where:** proportion, British population, Received Pronunciation

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 18 «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:e2:1
# text = Identify the proportion of the British population estimated to employ Received Pronunciation as a natural accent.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	employ	employ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	Received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	Pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the proportion of the British population |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent proportion=Theme |
| 2 | **estimate** | participle |  | the British population *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **employ** | to-infinitive |  | Received Pronunciation |  |  |  | as a natural accent | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent pronunciation=Theme as accent=Attribute |
| 4 | **receive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Approximately ninety in every hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:e2:o1:1
# text = Approximately ninety in every hundred
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The entire population without exception

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:e2:o2:1
# text = The entire population without exception
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Precisely one half

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:e2:o3:1
# text = Precisely one half
1	Precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Some two or three in every hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:e2:o4:1
# text = Some two or three in every hundred
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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