--- title: Your great-great-great-grandparents' English already sounded a bit d… — Where English came from · tree and pragmatics description: Your great-great-great-grandparents' English already sounded a bit different from yours, and your grandchildren's English will sound a bit different again. Who acts: English. A sentence of the lesson «Where English came from» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Where English came from](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/) / 5 # Where English came from, sentence 5 Your great-great-great-grandparents' English already sounded a bit different from yours, and your grandchildren's English will sound a bit different again. **Who acts:** English · **What happens:** sound This is a sentence of the lesson «Where English came from» 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 (English), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:022-where-english-came-from.lesson:5 # text = Your great-great-great-grandparents' English already sounded a bit different from yours, and your grandchildren's English will sound a bit different again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 022-where-english-came-from.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 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 ' 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 already already ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 grandchildren grandchild NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 29 again again ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | past | Your great great great grandparents's English | | | | | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **sound** | future | your grandchildren's English | | | | again | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **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:022-where-english-came-from.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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Where English came from, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/4/) - next →: [Where English came from, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/)