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title: English is spoken all over the world, and every place has grown its… — Accents and dialects around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: English is spoken all over the world, and every place has grown its own accent and words: a fizzy drink is "pop" in much of the American Midwest, "soda" in the Northeast and California, and sometimes just "coke" in parts of the South. Who acts: place, fizzy drink. A sentence of the lesson «Accents a
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# Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 0

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English is spoken all over the world, and every place has grown its own accent and words: a fizzy drink is "pop" in much of the American Midwest, "soda" in the Northeast and California, and sometimes just "coke" in parts of the South.

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**Who acts:** place, fizzy drink · **What happens:** speak, grow, be, accent · **To what, where:** English, world, own accent, pop, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects around the world» 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 (place, fizzy drink), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.lesson:0
# text = English is spoken all over the world, and every place has grown its own accent and words: a fizzy drink is "pop" in much of the American Midwest, "soda" in the Northeast and California, and sometimes just "coke" in parts of the South.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Midwest	Midwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	soda	soda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Northeast	northeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	47	advmod	_	_
45	just	just	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	_
47	coke	coke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | English |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present · perfect | every place | place's own accent and words |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location accent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a fizzy drink | pop and soda in the Northeast and California |  | much of the American Midwest |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **accent** |  | place |  |  |  |  |  | nom accent «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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**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 ×1, 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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