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title: Dialect and slang can be written inside speech marks to show a chara… — Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers · tree and pragmatics
description: Dialect and slang can be written inside speech marks to show a character's voice. A sentence of the lesson «Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers, sentence 14

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Dialect and slang can be written inside speech marks to show a character's voice.

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**What happens:** write, show · **To what, where:** Dialect, speech marks, voice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:14
# text = Dialect and slang can be written inside speech marks to show a character's voice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.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): no change
1	Dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **write** | can · passive |  | Dialect and slang |  | speech marks |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive |  | a character's voice |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent voice=Recipient |

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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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**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:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.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): no change. **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/).

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