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title: An accent is how people pronounce words; a dialect is a whole local… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: An accent is how people pronounce words; a dialect is a whole local way of speaking, with its own words and sometimes its own grammar; Britain and Ireland are packed with them, sometimes changing every few miles. Who acts: accent, dialect, Britain. A sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects of B
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# Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 0

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An accent is how people pronounce words; a dialect is a whole local way of speaking, with its own words and sometimes its own grammar; Britain and Ireland are packed with them, sometimes changing every few miles.

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**Who acts:** accent, dialect, Britain · **What happens:** be, speak, change, word · **To what, where:** whole local way, few miles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» 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 (accent, dialect, Britain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.lesson:0
# text = An accent is how people pronounce words; a dialect is a whole local way of speaking, with its own words and sometimes its own grammar; Britain and Ireland are packed with them, sometimes changing every few miles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
17	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	38	advmod	_	_
38	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
39	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
40	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | a accent |  |  |  |  | pronounce *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a dialect | a whole local way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with dialect's own words and dialect's own grammar | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with word=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Britain and Ireland |  |  |  |  | with words *= word*; pack *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **change** | gerund | Britain and Ireland *not said here* | every few miles |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Patient |
| 6 | **word** |  | dialect |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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:language:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.lesson:0`.

**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, R8-pos-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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