--- title: Most British people do not speak the "posh" BBC accent (Received Pro… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics description: Most British people do not speak the "posh" BBC accent (Received Pronunciation); it is often estimated that only about 2 or 3 in every 100 people speak it naturally, and the rest have regional accents. Who acts: Most British people, 2, rest. 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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 (Most British people, 2, rest), 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:3 # text = Most British people do not speak the "posh" BBC accent (Received Pronunciation); it is often estimated that only about 2 or 3 in every 100 people speak it naturally, and the rest have regional accents. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 posh posh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 BBC BBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Received receive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 Pronunciation pronunciation NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 estimated estimate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obl 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 30 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 32 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 naturally naturally ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 40 regional regional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · do-support | Most British people | the posh BBC accent Received Pronunciation | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **receive** | participle | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **estimate** | present · passive | | accent | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | 2 in every 100 people | accent | | | | naturally *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | the rest | regional accents | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=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:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.lesson:3`. **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, 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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