What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares, sentence 15

A register is the style of talk you choose for a situation, like chatty with friends or careful with a teacher; switching registers is a skill, not being fake.

Who acts: register, you, switching · What happens: be, choose, switch, not be · To what, where: style, talk, registers, skill

This is a sentence of the lesson «What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares» 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 (register, you, switching), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 register	det
2	register	register	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 style	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 style	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 style	det
5	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 talk	case
7	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 style	nmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 choose	nsubj
9	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 situation	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 situation	det
12	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choose	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 chatty	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 chatty	case
15	chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 style	amod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 friends	case
17	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 chatty	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 careful	cc
19	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 chatty	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 teacher	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 teacher	det
22	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 careful	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 skill	punct
24	switching	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 skill	csubj
25	registers	register	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 switching	obj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 skill	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 skill	det
28	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 style	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fake	punct
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 fake	advmod
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 fake	cop
32	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 skill	appos
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 style	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a register	the style	of talk	tree rules
2	choose	present	you	talk not said here	for a situation	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent talk=Theme for situation=Beneficiary
3	switch	gerund		registers		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent register=Patient
4	is a	present	switching	a skill		tree rules
5	not is	gerund			fake 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:language:001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.lesson:15.

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): no change. 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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