--- title: Informal language is relaxed and chatty; formal language is careful… — Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teac… · tree and pragmatics description: Informal language is relaxed and chatty; formal language is careful and polite, used for teachers, strangers and official writing. Who acts: Informal language, formal language. 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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 (Informal language, formal language), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:7 # text = Informal language is relaxed and chatty; formal language is careful and polite, used for teachers, strangers and official writing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.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 Informal informal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 relaxed relaxed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 chatty chatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 23 . . 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** | present | Informal language | | | | | relaxed *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Informal language *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | formal language | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | formal language *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | participle | | formal language *not said here* | | | | for teachers and strangers and official writing | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:7`. **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. 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