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title: British "chips" are American "fries"; British "crisps" are American… — British and American words · tree and pragmatics
description: British "chips" are American "fries"; British "crisps" are American "chips". Who acts: chips, British crisps. 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 5

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British "chips" are American "fries"; British "crisps" are American "chips".

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**Who acts:** chips, British crisps · **What happens:** be, chip · **To what, where:** British American fries

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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 (chips, British crisps), 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:5
# text = British "chips" are American "fries"; British "crisps" are American "chips".
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	chips	chips	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fries	fry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:root
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** *in a quote* | present | chips | British American fries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | american *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **chip** *in a quote* |  | British crisps |  |  |  |  |  | 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:5`.

**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, 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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