Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 15

Received Pronunciation (RP) is the traditional "posh" accent once used on the BBC; it is often estimated that only about 2 or 3 in every 100 British people speak it naturally, though nobody knows the exact number.

Who acts: Received Pronunciation, 2, nobody · What happens: receive, be, use, estimate, speak, know · To what, where: traditional accent, BBC, Pronunciation, exact number · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» 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 (Received Pronunciation, 2, nobody), 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	Received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Pronunciation	amod
2	Pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accent	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 RP	punct
4	RP	rp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pronunciation	appos
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 RP	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 accent	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 accent	det
8	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 accent	amod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 posh	punct
10	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 traditional	conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 traditional	punct
12	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 used	advmod
14	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 accent	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 BBC	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 BBC	det
17	BBC	BBC	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 used	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 estimated	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 estimated	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 estimated	aux:pass
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 estimated	advmod
22	estimated	estimate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 accent	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 speak	mark
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 2	advmod
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 2	advmod
26	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 speak	nsubj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 3	cc
28	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 2	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 people	case
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 people	det
31	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 people	nummod
32	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 people	amod
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 2	nmod
34	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 estimated	ccomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 speak	obj
36	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	34 speak	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 knows	punct
38	though	though	SCONJ	_	40 knows	mark
39	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 knows	nsubj
40	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 speak	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 number	det
42	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 number	amod
43	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 knows	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 accent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	participle					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Received Pronunciation	the traditional accent			tree rules
3	use	participle		the traditional accent not said here	the BBC	once property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	estimate	present · passive		Pronunciation		often property	tree rules
5	speak speech: other	present	2 in every 100 British people	Pronunciation		naturally property	tree rules
6	know	present	nobody	the exact number			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus

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:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.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): R5-strong ×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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