--- title: Standard English is the variety used in formal writing and formal sp… — Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk,… · tree and pragmatics description: Standard English is the variety used in formal writing and formal speech; it is one dialect among many, and it is the one schools teach for writing. Who acts: variety, schools. 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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 (variety, schools), 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:6 # text = Standard English is the variety used in formal writing and formal speech; it is one dialect among many, and it is the one schools teach for writing. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Standard Standard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 variety variety NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 dialect dialect NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 18 among among ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 26 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | | the variety *not said here* | | formal writing and formal speech | | use *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | variety | one dialect and the one | | | | among many | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | variety | the one | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | schools | the one *not said here* | | | | for writing | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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