--- title: "We was" is a dialect form; the Standard English form is "we were",… — SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper · tree and pragmatics description: "We was" is a dialect form; the Standard English form is "we were", and Standard English is what the test asks for. Who acts: We, Standard English, Standard form. 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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 (We, Standard English, Standard form), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:13 # text = "We was" is a dialect form; the Standard English form is "we were", and Standard English is what the test asks for. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 dialect dialect NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 Standard Standard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 Standard Standard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 obj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 27 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | We | a dialect form | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Standard English | a dialect form | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the Standard form | | | | | ask *property* | 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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:13`. **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, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [SATs: grammar, punctuation and spellin…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/12/) - next →: [SATs: grammar, punctuation and spellin…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/)