--- title: In everyday speech "there's" is often used with plurals ("there's lo… — Is there one proper English? The big arguments · tree and pragmatics description: In everyday speech "there's" is often used with plurals ("there's loads of people"); careful writing uses "there are". Who acts: careful writing. 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 --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Is there one proper English? The big arguments, sentence 16 In everyday speech "there's" is often used with plurals ("there's loads of people"); careful writing uses "there are". **Who acts:** careful writing · **What happens:** use, be · **To what, where:** everyday speech, loads · **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 (careful writing), 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:16 # text = In everyday speech "there's" is often used with plurals ("there's loads of people"); careful writing uses "there are". # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:expl 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 often often ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 plurals plural NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 loads load NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 parataxis _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present · passive | | | | everyday speech | | with plurals; often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | loads | | | | of people | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | present | careful writing | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | careful writing *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:16`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/15/) - next →: [Is there one proper English? The big a…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/)