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title: In standard written English the subject is "Sam and I went"; "me and… — Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who · tree and pragmatics
description: In standard written English the subject is "Sam and I went"; "me and Sam went" is very common in everyday speech and everyone understands it. Who acts: Sam, me, subject, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, sentence 10

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In standard written English the subject is "Sam and I went"; "me and Sam went" is very common in everyday speech and everyone understands it.

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**Who acts:** Sam, me, subject, everyone · **What happens:** write, go, be, understand · **To what, where:** standard written English, everyday speech, subject · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» 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 (Sam, me, subject, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:10
# text = In standard written English the subject is "Sam and I went"; "me and Sam went" is very common in everyday speech and everyone understands it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	csubj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	_
29	understands	understand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Sam | standard written English *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location english=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | me |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the subject in standard written English |  |  | everyday speech |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **understand** | present | everyone | subject |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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