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title: What would happen if all English speakers used exactly the same word… — Accents and dialects around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if all English speakers used exactly the same words everywhere? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Accents and dialects around the world» 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Accents and dialects around the world

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What would happen if all English speakers used exactly the same words everywhere?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** English speakers · **What happens:** happen, use · **To what, where:** same words

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Accents and dialects around the world» 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/19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world:t7:1
# text = What would happen if all English speakers used exactly the same words everywhere?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | all English speakers | the same words |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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We'd lose words like prepone, lekker and sweet as, and the stories behind them

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world:t7:o1:1
# text = We'd lose words like prepone, lekker and sweet as, and the stories behind them
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	prepone	prepone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	lekker	lekker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | would | We | words |  |  |  | like prepone and lekker | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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English would split into seven new languages overnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world:t7:o2:1
# text = English would split into seven new languages overnight
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | would | English |  |  |  |  | into seven new languages *result*; overnight *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into language=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, because English is already exactly the same everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world:t7:o3:1
# text = Nothing, because English is already exactly the same everywhere
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | everywhere, exactly, same *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
People in Australia would start speaking Spanish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:19-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world:t7:o4:1
# text = People in Australia would start speaking Spanish
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | would | People in Australia |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | People in Australia *not said here* | Spanish |  |  |  |  | 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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