Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing, sentence 2

Accent is different: it is how words sound; you can speak Standard English in a Glasgow, Lagos or Texas accent, and you can speak dialect in a posh one.

Who acts: Accent, you · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: Standard English, Glasgow accent, dialect · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing» of the english 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 (Accent, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 different	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 different	cop
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 sound	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sound	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sound	cop
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 sound	advmod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sound	nsubj
9	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 different	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 speak	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 speak	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 speak	aux
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 different	parataxis
14	Standard	Standard	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 English	compound
15	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 speak	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	23 accent	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 accent	det
18	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 accent	compound
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Lagos	punct
20	Lagos	Lagos	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Glasgow	conj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 Texas	cc
22	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Glasgow	conj
23	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 speak	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 speak	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 speak	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 speak	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 speak	aux
28	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 speak	conj
29	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 speak	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 one	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 one	det
32	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 one	amod
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 speak	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 different	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Accent			different property	tree rules
2	is	present	Accent			sound property	tree rules
3	speak speech: other	can	you	Standard English	a Glasgow accent		tree rules
4	speak speech: other	can	you	dialect		in a posh one	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, 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:english:038-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were.lesson:2.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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