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title: Register means choosing words to suit your audience: formal language… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics
description: Register means choosing words to suit your audience: formal language for governors, chattier words for friends. Who acts: Register. A sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 12

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Register means choosing words to suit your audience: formal language for governors, chattier words for friends.

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**Who acts:** Register · **What happens:** mean, choose, suit · **To what, where:** words, audience

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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 (Register), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:12
# text = Register means choosing words to suit your audience: formal language for governors, chattier words for friends.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Register	register	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	governors	governor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	chattier	chatty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Register |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **choose** *not said to happen* | gerund | Register *not said here* | words |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **suit** | to-infinitive | Register *not said here* | your audience |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:12`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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