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title: British biscuit, pavement and lift are American cookie, sidewalk and… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics
description: British biscuit, pavement and lift are American cookie, sidewalk and elevator. Who acts: British biscuit. A sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The big language quiz, sentence 8

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British biscuit, pavement and lift are American cookie, sidewalk and elevator.

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**Who acts:** British biscuit · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** American cookie

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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 (British biscuit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:8
# text = British biscuit, pavement and lift are American cookie, sidewalk and elevator.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 040-the-big-language-quiz.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): no change
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lift	lift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cookie	cookie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sidewalk	sidewalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	elevator	elevator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | British biscuit and pavement and lift | American cookie and sidewalk and elevator |  |  |  |  | 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:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:8`.

**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): no change. **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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