--- title: English has no official academy; French has the Académie Française;… — Is there one proper English? The big arguments · tree and pragmatics description: English has no official academy; French has the Académie Française; dictionaries and style guides record how people write. Who acts: English, French, dictionaries, people. A sentence of the lesson «Is there one proper English? The big arguments» of the language course of Mova's primary school with i --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Is there one proper English? The big arguments, sentence 12 English has no official academy; French has the Académie Française; dictionaries and style guides record how people write. **Who acts:** English, French, dictionaries, people · **What happens:** have, record, write · **To what, where:** official academy, Académie Française 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 (English, French, dictionaries, people), 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:12 # text = English has no official academy; French has the Académie Française; dictionaries and style guides record how people write. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 academy academy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Académie Académie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Française Française PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 dictionaries dictionary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 guides guide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 record record VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 write write VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **have** | present | English | no official academy | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent academy=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | French | the Académie Française | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent française=Patient | | 3 | **record** | present | dictionaries and style guides | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **write** | present | people | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:020-is-there-one-proper-english.lesson:12`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Is there one proper English? The big a…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/)