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title: In American English "dove" is common for the past of dive; British E… — Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mis… · tree and pragmatics
description: In American English "dove" is common for the past of dive; British English says "dived"; both are correct in their own country. Who acts: dove, British English, both. A sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» of the language course of Mova's primary school with
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# Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes, sentence 10

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In American English "dove" is common for the past of dive; British English says "dived"; both are correct in their own country.

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**Who acts:** dove, British English, both · **What happens:** be, say, dive · **To what, where:** American English, own country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» 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 (dove, British English, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.lesson:10
# text = In American English "dove" is common for the past of dive; British English says "dived"; both are correct in their own country.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.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): R8-pos-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:NNP:Degree=Pos
3	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dive	dive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:NNP:Degree=Pos
16	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	obj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	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** | present | dove |  |  | American English |  | for the past of dive; common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | British English |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dive** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | present | both |  |  | dove's own country |  | correct *property* | 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:009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.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): R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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