Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 3

Most British people do not speak the "posh" BBC accent (Received Pronunciation); it is often estimated that only about 2 or 3 in every 100 people speak it naturally, and the rest have regional accents.

Who acts: Most British people, 2, rest · What happens: not speak, receive, estimate, speak, have · To what, where: posh BBC accent, accent, regional accents · 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 (Most British people, 2, rest), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 people	amod
2	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 speak	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 speak	advmod
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 accent	det
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 posh	punct
9	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 accent	amod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 posh	punct
11	BBC	BBC	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 accent	compound
12	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speak	obj
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 Pronunciation	punct
14	Received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Pronunciation	amod
15	Pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accent	nmod
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 Pronunciation	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 estimated	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 estimated	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 estimated	aux:pass
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 estimated	advmod
21	estimated	estimate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 speak	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 speak	mark
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 2	advmod
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 2	advmod
25	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 speak	nsubj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 3	cc
27	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 2	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 people	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 people	det
30	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 people	nummod
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 2	nmod
32	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 estimated	ccomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 speak	obj
34	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	32 speak	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 have	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 have	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 rest	det
38	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 have	nsubj
39	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 speak	conj
40	regional	regional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 accents	amod
41	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 have	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	present · do-support	Most British people	the posh BBC accent Received Pronunciation		tree rules
2	receive	participle				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	estimate	present · passive		accent	often property	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	infinitive	2 in every 100 people	accent	naturally property	tree rules
5	have	present	the rest	regional accents		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Patient

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:3.

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, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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