SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 13

"We was" is a dialect form; the Standard English form is "we were", and Standard English is what the test asks for.

Who acts: We, Standard English, Standard form · What happens: be · To what, where: dialect form

This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» 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 (We, Standard English, Standard form), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 form	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 form	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 form	cop
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 form	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 form	det
7	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 form	compound
8	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 form	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 form	det
11	Standard	Standard	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 form	compound
12	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Standard	flat
13	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asks	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 asks	cop
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 asks	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 were	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 asks	cop
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 were	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 what	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 what	cc
21	Standard	Standard	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 English	compound
22	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 what	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 what	cop
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 asks	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 test	det
26	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asks	nsubj
27	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 form	parataxis
28	for	for	ADP	_	27 asks	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 form	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	We	a dialect form		tree rules
2	is a	present	Standard English	a dialect form		tree rules
3	is	present	the Standard form		ask property	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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:13.

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, R6-punct-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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