--- title: In Nigerian English "I'm coming" can mean "I'll be back soon" when s… — Is there one proper English? The big arguments · tree and pragmatics description: In Nigerian English "I'm coming" can mean "I'll be back soon" when someone steps out of a room. Who acts: more people, someone. 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 eve --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Is there one proper English? The big arguments, sentence 17 In Nigerian English "I'm coming" can mean "I'll be back soon" when someone steps out of a room. **Who acts:** more people, someone · **What happens:** come, mean, be, step out · **To what, where:** room · **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 (more people, someone), 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:17 # text = In Nigerian English "I'm coming" can mean "I'll be back soon" when someone steps out of a room. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 Nigerian Nigerian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 3 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 16 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ _ 20 steps step VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 21 out out ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . 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 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | more people *= people* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | can | | | | | | in Nigerian English | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in english=Attribute | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | more people *= people* | | | | | back, soon *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **step out** | present | someone | a room | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location room=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:17`. **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 ×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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/16/) - next →: [British and American words, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/21-british-and-american-words/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/)