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The big a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/) / 1 # Is there one proper English? The big arguments, sentence 1 Standard English is the kind taught at school and used in formal writing; dialects like "we was robbed" or "I don't want no dinner" have their own grammar, and everybody understands them, but school writing uses the standard. **Who acts:** Standard English, dialects, writer, everybody, school writing · **What happens:** be, teach, use, rob, not want, have · **To what, where:** kind, school, formal writing, we, dinner, own grammar · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Is there one proper English? The big arguments» 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 (Standard English, dialects, writer, everybody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:020-is-there-one-proper-english.lesson:1 # text = Standard English is the kind taught at school and used in formal writing; dialects like "we was robbed" or "I don't want no dinner" have their own grammar, and everybody understands them, but school writing uses the standard. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 020-is-there-one-proper-english.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Standard Standard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 English English PROPN NNP 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 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 taught teach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 dialects dialect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 16 like like ADP IN _ 20 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 robbed rob VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 29 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 31 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 38 nsubj _ _ 38 understands understand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=38:conj 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 standard standard NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 . . 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 a** | present | Standard English | the kind | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | participle | | the kind *not said here* | | school | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **use** | participle | | | | formal writing | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rob** *in a quote* | past · passive | dialects *not said here* | we | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | | 5 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the writer *= writer* | no dinner | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | dialects | dialects's own grammar | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grammar=Patient | | 7 | **understand** | present | everybody | dialects *= dialect* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 8 | **use** | present | school writing | the standard | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=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:020-is-there-one-proper-english.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Is there one proper English? The big a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/0/) - next →: [Is there one proper English? 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