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title: In British English «advice» and «practice» are nouns, «advise» and «… — Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: In British English «advice» and «practice» are nouns, «advise» and «practise» are verbs; American English uses «practice» for both. Who acts: advice, American English. A sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea)» of the english course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 27

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In British English «advice» and «practice» are nouns, «advise» and «practise» are verbs; American English uses «practice» for both.

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**Who acts:** advice, American English · **What happens:** be, advise, use · **To what, where:** nouns, British English, verbs, practice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea)» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (advice, American English), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:014-words-to-know-years-5-6.lesson:27
# text = In British English «advice» and «practice» are nouns, «advise» and «practise» are verbs; American English uses «practice» for both.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 014-words-to-know-years-5-6.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×7
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
5	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	advise	advise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	nsubj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	practise	practise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | advice and practice | nouns and verbs |  | British English |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | verbs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | present | American English | practice |  |  |  | for both | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent practice=Theme for both=Eventuality |

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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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×7. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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