--- title: A register is the style of talk you choose for a situation, like cha… — What language is: sounds, words and rules everyo… · tree and pragmatics description: A register is the style of talk you choose for a situation, like chatty with friends or careful with a teacher; switching registers is a skill, not being fake. Who acts: register, you, switching. A sentence of the lesson «What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares» of the language cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [What language is: sounds, words and ru…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/) / 15 # What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares, sentence 15 A register is the style of talk you choose for a situation, like chatty with friends or careful with a teacher; switching registers is a skill, not being fake. **Who acts:** register, you, switching · **What happens:** be, choose, switch, not be · **To what, where:** style, talk, registers, skill 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 (register, you, switching), 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:15 # text = A register is the style of talk you choose for a situation, like chatty with friends or careful with a teacher; switching registers is a skill, not being fake. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 register register NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 situation situation NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 chatty chatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 switching switch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 csubj _ _ 25 registers register NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 cop _ _ 32 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 appos _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a register | the style | | | | of talk | tree rules | | 2 | **choose** | present | you | talk *not said here* | | | | for a situation | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent talk=Theme for situation=Beneficiary | | 3 | **switch** | gerund | | registers | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent register=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | switching | a skill | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **is** | gerund | | | | | | fake *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:language:001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.lesson:15`. **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/). - ← previous: [What language is: sounds, words and ru…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/14/) - next →: [What language is: sounds, words and ru…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/)