--- title: No accent is "lazy" or "the worst": each has its own history and rul… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics description: No accent is "lazy" or "the worst": each has its own history and rules, and polls that rank accents mostly show people's prejudices; Scots, spoken in Scotland, is even counted as a language closely related to English. Who acts: accent, each, polls, people. 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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 (accent, each, polls, people), 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:4 # text = No accent is "lazy" or "the worst": each has its own history and rules, and polls that rank accents mostly show people's prejudices; Scots, spoken in Scotland, is even counted as a language closely related to English. # 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 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 conj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 nsubj _ _ 14 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 polls poll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 rank rank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 prejudices prejudice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Scots Scot PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obj 44 closely closely ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** *in a quote* | present | no accent | | | | | lazy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | | no accent *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | each | accent's own history and rules | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient | | 4 | **rank** | present | polls | accents | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent accent=Theme | | 5 | **show** | present | polls | people's prejudices | | | | mostly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prejudice=Recipient | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | | Scots *not said here* | | Scotland | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **count** | present · passive | | Scots | | | | as a language | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as language=Attribute | | 8 | **prejudice** | | people | | | | | | nom prejudice «cognition transitive»: poss=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:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.lesson:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [Accents and dialects of Britain and Ir…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/3/) - next →: [Accents and dialects of Britain and Ir…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/)