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description: A poll says one city's accent is "the worst in Britain". What does that mostly show? Test 3 · ★ 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 each option; Mova's choice was ri
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# Test 3 · ★ · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland

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A poll says one city's accent is "the worst in Britain". What does that mostly show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** poll, accent, one city · **What happens:** say, be, accent, do · **To what, where:** Britain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 18 «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A poll says one city's accent is "the worst in Britain".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t3:1
# text = A poll says one city's accent is "the worst in Britain".
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	ccomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a poll |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | one city's accent |  |  | Britain |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **accent** |  | one city |  |  |  |  |  | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does that mostly show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t3:2
# text = What does that mostly show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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People's prejudices, not anything wrong with the accent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t3:o1:1
# text = People's prejudices, not anything wrong with the accent
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	prejudices	prejudice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prejudice** |  | People |  |  |  |  |  | nom prejudice «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That the accent is the oldest in Britain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t3:o2:1
# text = That the accent is the oldest in Britain
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that accent |  |  | Britain |  | old *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That the people there really cannot speak English properly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t3:o3:1
# text = That the people there really cannot speak English properly
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | can | the people | English |  | there |  | properly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That the accent is about to disappear for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t3:o4:1
# text = That the accent is about to disappear for good
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that accent |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **disappear** | to-infinitive | that accent *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for good | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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