--- title: "Snuck" began in American dialects and is now very common in the US;… — Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mis… · tree and pragmatics description: "Snuck" began in American dialects and is now very common in the US; in British English "sneaked" is the standard written form, and both are in major dictionaries. Who acts: Snuck, both. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snuck, 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:16 # text = "Snuck" began in American dialects and is now very common in the US; in British English "sneaked" is the standard written form, and both are in major dictionaries. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Snuck Snuck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 dialects dialect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 now now ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 21 sneaked sneak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 nsubj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 34 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 major major ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 dictionaries dictionary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | Snuck | | | American dialects | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | Snuck *not said here* | | | | now | in the US; common *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sneak** *in a quote* | participle | | | | British English | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in english=Trajectory | | 4 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | | the standard written form | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | both | | | major dictionaries | | | tree rules | 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:009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.lesson:16`. **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): R6-punct-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. 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