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title: Language changes all the time; that is not the same as getting worse. — Is there one proper English? The big arguments · tree and pragmatics
description: Language changes all the time; that is not the same as getting worse. Who acts: Language changes. 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 clause.
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# Is there one proper English? The big arguments, sentence 6

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Language changes all the time; that is not the same as getting worse.

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**Who acts:** Language changes · **What happens:** not be, get

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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 (Language changes), 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:6
# text = Language changes all the time; that is not the same as getting worse.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Language changes  all time |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | Language changes  all time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:6`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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