--- title: An accent is the way people pronounce words; a dialect is a local wa… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics description: An accent is the way people pronounce words; a dialect is a local way of speaking with its own words and grammar. Who acts: accent, people, dialect, local way. 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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, people, dialect, local way), 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:5 # text = An accent is the way people pronounce words; a dialect is a local way of speaking with its own words and grammar. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 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 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pronounce pronounce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dialect dialect NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 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 acl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | a accent | the way | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pronounce** | present | people | words | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | a dialect | a local way | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | a local way *not said here* | | | | | with accent's own words and grammar | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with word=Co-Agent | | 5 | **word** | | accent | | | | | | nom word «communication 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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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