--- title: Some questions ask for Standard English, the form used in tests and… — SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper · tree and pragmatics description: Some questions ask for Standard English, the form used in tests and formal writing: "we were", not the dialect "we was", which is fine at home but loses the mark here. Who acts: questions, dialect. 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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 (questions, dialect), 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:3 # text = Some questions ask for Standard English, the form used in tests and formal writing: "we were", not the dialect "we was", which is fine at home but loses the mark here. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Standard Standard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 dialect dialect NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 26 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nsubj 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:parataxis 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | some questions | | | | | for Standard English | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **use** | participle | | the form *not said here* | | tests and formal writing | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the dialect | | | home | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **lose** | present | the dialect *not said here* | the mark | | here | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Eventuality | 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:3`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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