--- title: In some Northern English dialects "were" is used with every person (… — Tense consistency and verb forms · tree and pragmatics description: In some Northern English dialects "were" is used with every person ("I were", "she were"); Standard English uses "I was" and "she was". Who acts: Time words, person, Standard English, English. 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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 (Time words, person, Standard English, English), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:031-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms.lesson:14 # text = In some Northern English dialects "were" is used with every person ("I were", "she were"); Standard English uses "I was" and "she was". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 031-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms.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 ×8, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 3 Northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:NNP:Degree=Pos 4 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 dialects dialect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 Standard Standard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:conj 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present · passive | | | | some English dialects | | with every person | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | past | Time words such yesterday *= word* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | past | person | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **use** | present | Standard English | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | past | Time words such yesterday *= word* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | past | English | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:031-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms.lesson:14`. **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 ×8, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Tense consistency and verb forms, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/13/) - next →: [Tense consistency and verb forms, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/31-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms/)