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title: The trick is to know both words and use the one your listener knows,… — British and American words · tree and pragmatics
description: The trick is to know both words and use the one your listener knows, like a kid who speaks two kinds of English. Who acts: listener, kid. 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 4

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The trick is to know both words and use the one your listener knows, like a kid who speaks two kinds of English.

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**Who acts:** listener, kid · **What happens:** be, know, use, speak · **To what, where:** trick, words, one, two kinds · **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 (listener, kid), 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:4
# text = The trick is to know both words and use the one your listener knows, like a kid who speaks two kinds of English.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:cc:preconj|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nummod|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	listener	listener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- 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** | present |  | the trick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive |  | both words |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 3 | **use** | infinitive |  | the one |  |  |  | like a kid | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | present | your listener | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | a kid | two kinds of English |  |  |  |  | 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:4`.

**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 ×3, 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/).

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