--- title: Accent is different: it is how words sound; you can speak Standard E… — Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk,… · tree and pragmatics description: Accent is different: it is how words sound; you can speak Standard English in a Glasgow, Lagos or Texas accent, and you can speak dialect in a posh one. Who acts: Accent, you. A sentence of the lesson «Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing» of the english course of Mov --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing, sentence 2 Accent is different: it is how words sound; you can speak Standard English in a Glasgow, Lagos or Texas accent, and you can speak dialect in a posh one. **Who acts:** Accent, you · **What happens:** be, speak · **To what, where:** Standard English, Glasgow accent, dialect · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Accent, you), 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:2 # text = Accent is different: it is how words sound; you can speak Standard English in a Glasgow, Lagos or Texas accent, and you can speak dialect in a posh one. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 Standard Standard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 18 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Lagos Lagos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod:unmarked 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 29 dialect dialect NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 posh posh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is** | present | Accent | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | Accent | | | | | sound *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | can | you | Standard English | | a Glasgow accent | | | tree rules | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | can | you | dialect | | | | in a posh one | tree rules | 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:2`. **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, R7-rel-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. 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