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title: Dialect is fine in talk and in characters' speech; formal writing us… — Putting it together: reading and writing like a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dialect is fine in talk and in characters' speech; formal writing usually uses Standard English. Who acts: Dialect, formal writing, characters. A sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 14

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Dialect is fine in talk and in characters' speech; formal writing usually uses Standard English.

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**Who acts:** Dialect, formal writing, characters · **What happens:** be, use, speak · **To what, where:** talk, Standard English · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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 (Dialect, formal writing, characters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:14
# text = Dialect is fine in talk and in characters' speech; formal writing usually uses Standard English.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.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): no change
1	Dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	Standard	Standard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | Dialect |  |  | talk and characters's speech |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | formal writing | Standard English |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** |  | characters |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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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