--- title: Grammar is the set of rules for how words fit together; everyone who… — What language is: sounds, words and rules everyo… · tree and pragmatics description: Grammar is the set of rules for how words fit together; everyone who speaks a language already uses its grammar. Who acts: Grammar, words, everyone. 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 dependenc --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares, sentence 8 Grammar is the set of rules for how words fit together; everyone who speaks a language already uses its grammar. **Who acts:** Grammar, words, everyone · **What happens:** be, fit together, speak, use · **To what, where:** set, language, grammar · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Grammar, words, everyone), 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:8 # text = Grammar is the set of rules for how words fit together; everyone who speaks a language already uses its grammar. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 together together ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 19 nsubj _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 already already ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Grammar | the set | | | | of rules | tree rules | | 2 | **fit together** | present | words | | | | | together *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | | a language | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **use** | present | everyone | Language's grammar | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grammar=Patient | 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:8`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What language is: sounds, words and ru…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/7/) - next →: [What language is: sounds, words and ru…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/)