--- title: That is her dialect, the way people speak where she lives, and it is… — Relative clauses · tree and pragmatics description: That is her dialect, the way people speak where she lives, and it isn't wrong at home; in standard English, for school writing, it is «the girl who helped me». Who acts: That, way people, clause, race. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, way people, clause, race), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:030-relative-clauses.lesson:6 # text = That is her dialect, the way people speak where she lives, and it isn't wrong at home; in standard English, for school writing, it is «the girl who helped me». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 030-relative-clauses.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 dialect dialect NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | That | clause's dialect | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | way people | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** | present | clause | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | race | | | home | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | race | the girl | | standard English | | for school writing | tree rules | | 6 | **help** *in a quote* | past | the girl | | a clause *= clause* | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:030-relative-clauses.lesson:6`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Relative clauses, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/30-relative-clauses/4/) - next →: [Relative clauses, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/30-relative-clauses/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/30-relative-clauses/)