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title: In America the "first floor" is the floor at street level; in Britai… — British and American words · tree and pragmatics
description: In America the "first floor" is the floor at street level; in Britain that is the "ground floor", and the British "first floor" is one floor up. Who acts: first floor, that, floor. A sentence of the lesson «British and American words» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# British and American words, sentence 16

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In America the "first floor" is the floor at street level; in Britain that is the "ground floor", and the British "first floor" is one floor up.

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**Who acts:** first floor, that, floor · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** floor, street level, ground floor, Britain, America · **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 (first floor, that, floor), 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:16
# text = In America the "first floor" is the floor at street level; in Britain that is the "ground floor", and the British "first floor" is one floor up.
# 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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	up	up	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the first floor | the floor |  | street level |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the ground floor |  | Britain |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the floor |  |  | America |  | one floor *obl:unmarked*; up *property* | tree rules |

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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: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): R7-rel-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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