--- title: SATs grammar questions in England ask for Standard English, so pupil… — Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk,… · tree and pragmatics description: SATs grammar questions in England ask for Standard English, so pupils need to know the standard forms as well as their home forms. Who acts: SATs grammar questions, pupils. A sentence of the lesson «Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing» of the english course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Standard English and dialect: "we was"…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/) / 16 # Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing, sentence 16 SATs grammar questions in England ask for Standard English, so pupils need to know the standard forms as well as their home forms. **Who acts:** SATs grammar questions, pupils · **What happens:** ask, need, know, form · **To what, where:** standard forms This is a sentence of the lesson «Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing» 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 (SATs grammar questions, pupils), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:038-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were.lesson:16 # text = SATs grammar questions in England ask for Standard English, so pupils need to know the standard forms as well as their home forms. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 038-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 SATs sat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 2 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 Standard Standard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 15 advmod _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 fixed _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | SATs grammar questions in England | | | | | for Standard English | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **need** | present | pupils | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | pupils *not said here* | the standard forms and pupils's home forms | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus | | 4 | **form** | | pupils *= pupil* | | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:038-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were.lesson:16`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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. 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