--- title: "To boldly go" puts a word between "to" and the verb; some 1800s gra… — Is there one proper English? The big arguments · tree and pragmatics description: "To boldly go" puts a word between "to" and the verb; some 1800s grammar writers called this wrong because Latin can't do it, but most modern style guides say it is fine. Who acts: go, 1800s grammar writers, Latin, most style guides. A sentence of the lesson «Is there one proper English? The big arg --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Is there one proper English? The big a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/) / 10 # Is there one proper English? The big arguments, sentence 10 "To boldly go" puts a word between "to" and the verb; some 1800s grammar writers called this wrong because Latin can't do it, but most modern style guides say it is fine. **Who acts:** go, 1800s grammar writers, Latin, most style guides · **What happens:** put, call, not do, say, be · **To what, where:** word, this, go · **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 (go, 1800s grammar writers, Latin, most style guides), 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:10 # text = "To boldly go" puts a word between "to" and the verb; some 1800s grammar writers called this wrong because Latin can't do it, but most modern style guides say it is fine. # 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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 To to PART TO _ 4 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 3 boldly boldly ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 4 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 between between ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 8 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 18 1800s 1800 NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj 19 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 writers writer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 21 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 obj _ _ 23 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 33 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 guides guide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 ccomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | present | go | a word | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme between to=Destination | | 2 | **call** | past | some 1800s grammar writers | this | | | | wrong *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **do** | can | Latin | go | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | most style guides | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | go | | | | | fine *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:020-is-there-one-proper-english.lesson:10`. **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 ×5, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Is there one proper English? The big a…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/9/) - next →: [Is there one proper English? The big a…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/)