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title: In the world, more people speak English as a second language than as… — Is there one proper English? The big arguments · tree and pragmatics
description: In the world, more people speak English as a second language than as a first, in many local varieties. Who acts: more people. A sentence of the lesson «Is there one proper English? The big arguments» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Is there one proper English? The big arguments, sentence 13

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In the world, more people speak English as a second language than as a first, in many local varieties.

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**Who acts:** more people · **What happens:** speak · **To what, where:** English, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (more 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:13
# text = In the world, more people speak English as a second language than as a first, in many local varieties.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	varieties	variety	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | more people | English |  | the world |  | as a second language; in many local varieties | tree rules |

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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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**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:13`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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