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title: Many people in the world grow up bilingual (speaking two languages)… — What language is: sounds, words and rules everyo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many people in the world grow up bilingual (speaking two languages) or multilingual (speaking several). Who acts: Many people. A sentence of the lesson «What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares, sentence 13

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Many people in the world grow up bilingual (speaking two languages) or multilingual (speaking several).

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**Who acts:** Many people · **What happens:** grow up, speak · **To what, where:** two languages, several · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares» of the language 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 (Many people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.lesson:13
# text = Many people in the world grow up bilingual (speaking two languages) or multilingual (speaking several).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	bilingual	bilingual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	multilingual	multilingual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **grow up** | present | Many people in the world |  |  |  |  | bilingual *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Many people in the world *not said here* | two languages |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Many people in the world *not said here* | several |  |  |  |  | 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:language:001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.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): R6-punct-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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