--- title: With group nouns like team or family, British English often says "th… — Nouns: the names of things, people, places and i… · tree and pragmatics description: With group nouns like team or family, British English often says "the team are" and American English usually says "the team is"; both are correct in their own country. Who acts: British English, both. 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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 (British English, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:17 # text = With group nouns like team or family, British English often says "the team are" and American English usually says "the team is"; both are correct in their own country. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 nouns noun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:NNP:Degree=Pos 10 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 often often ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:cop 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 21 usually usually ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nsubj 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 31 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 correct correct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | British English | | | | | with group nouns like team or family; often *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with noun=Manner | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | British English *not said here* | | | | | usually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | both | | | team's own country | | correct *property* | tree rules | 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:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:17`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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