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title: Received Pronunciation (RP) is the traditional "posh" accent once us… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: Received Pronunciation (RP) is the traditional "posh" accent once used on the BBC; it is often estimated that only about 2 or 3 in every 100 British people speak it naturally, though nobody knows the exact number. Who acts: Received Pronunciation, 2, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Accents and dia
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# Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 15

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Received Pronunciation (RP) is the traditional "posh" accent once used on the BBC; it is often estimated that only about 2 or 3 in every 100 British people speak it naturally, though nobody knows the exact number.

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**Who acts:** Received Pronunciation, 2, nobody · **What happens:** receive, be, use, estimate, speak, know · **To what, where:** traditional accent, BBC, Pronunciation, exact number · **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 (Received Pronunciation, 2, nobody), 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:15
# text = Received Pronunciation (RP) is the traditional "posh" accent once used on the BBC; it is often estimated that only about 2 or 3 in every 100 British people speak it naturally, though nobody knows the exact number.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	Pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
4	RP	rp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	BBC	BBC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nsubj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
31	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
32	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
34	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	40	nsubj	_	_
40	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **receive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Received Pronunciation | the traditional accent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  | the traditional accent *not said here* |  | the BBC |  | once *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **estimate** | present · passive |  | Pronunciation |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | 2 in every 100 British people | Pronunciation |  |  |  | naturally *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | present | nobody | the exact number |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×2. **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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