--- title: A double negative uses two negative words in one part of a sentence,… — Is there one proper English? The big arguments · tree and pragmatics description: A double negative uses two negative words in one part of a sentence, like "I don't want no dinner"; it means "I don't want any dinner", not that you want dinner. Who acts: double negative, people, it, you. A sentence of the lesson «Is there one proper English? The big arguments» of the language cour --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Is there one proper English? The big arguments, sentence 8 A double negative uses two negative words in one part of a sentence, like "I don't want no dinner"; it means "I don't want any dinner", not that you want dinner. **Who acts:** double negative, people, it, you · **What happens:** use, not want, mean · **To what, where:** two negative words, one part, dinner · **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 (double negative, people, it, you), 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:8 # text = A double negative uses two negative words in one part of a sentence, like "I don't want no dinner"; it means "I don't want any dinner", not that you want dinner. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 negative negative NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 negative negative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 20 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 32 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 33 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 40 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | a double negative | two negative words | | one part of a sentence | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | people | no dinner | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | people | any dinner | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **want** | present | you | dinner | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=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:8`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/6/) - next →: [Is there one proper English? The big a…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/)