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title: Some "American" words are really old British ones: "fall" for autumn… — British and American words · tree and pragmatics
description: Some "American" words are really old British ones: "fall" for autumn and "soccer" for football both started in England and simply stayed alive across the ocean. Who acts: American words, old British ones. A sentence of the lesson «British and American words» of the language course of Mova's primary 
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# British and American words, sentence 3

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Some "American" words are really old British ones: "fall" for autumn and "soccer" for football both started in England and simply stayed alive across the ocean.

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**Who acts:** American words, old British ones · **What happens:** be, start, stay · **To what, where:** old British ones, England, ocean

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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 (American words, old British ones), 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:3
# text = Some "American" words are really old British ones: "fall" for autumn and "soccer" for football both started in England and simply stayed alive across the ocean.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc:preconj	_	_
24	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	across	across	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24: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 | some American words | old British ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | past | old British ones |  |  | England |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stay** | past | old British ones *not said here* |  |  | the ocean |  | alive, simply *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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