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title: The letter Z is "zed" in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and mos… — British and American words · tree and pragmatics
description: The letter Z is "zed" in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and most English-speaking places, and "zee" in the USA. Who acts: letter. A sentence of the lesson «British and American words» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# British and American words, sentence 13

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The letter Z is "zed" in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and most English-speaking places, and "zee" in the USA.

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**Who acts:** letter · **What happens:** be, speak · **To what, where:** zed, Britain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «British and American words» 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 (letter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:021-british-and-american-words.lesson:13
# text = The letter Z is "zed" in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and most English-speaking places, and "zee" in the USA.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 021-british-and-american-words.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	zed	zed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
18	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	zee	zee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | letter | the zed and most English speaking places and zee in the USA |  | Britain and Ireland and Canada and Australia |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:021-british-and-american-words.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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