--- title: A Cockney grandad says "Give us a butcher's at your new phone." What… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ir… · tree and pragmatics description: A Cockney grandad says "Give us a butcher's at your new phone." What does he want? Test 5 · ★ 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 wron --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [Accents and dialects of Britain and Ir…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland A Cockney grandad says "Give us a butcher's at your new phone." What does he want? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cockney grandad, grandad · **What happens:** say, give, want · **To what, where:** butcher, us, new phone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A Cockney grandad says "Give us a butcher's at your new phone." ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t5:1 # text = A Cockney grandad says "Give us a butcher's at your new phone." 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Cockney cockney ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 7 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 butcher butcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Cockney grandad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a butcher | us | your new phone | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Recipient butcher=Theme at phone=Asset | 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:* What does he want? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t5:2 # text = What does he want? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present · do-support | grandad | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} A sausage ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t5:o1:1 # text = A sausage 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sausage sausage NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A meat pie ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t5:o2:1 # text = A meat pie 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pie pie NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A sandwich ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t5:o3:1 # text = A sandwich 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sandwich sandwich NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} A look ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland:t5:o4:1 # text = A look 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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