Is there one proper English? The big arguments, sentence 16

In everyday speech "there's" is often used with plurals ("there's loads of people"); careful writing uses "there are".

Who acts: careful writing · What happens: use, be · To what, where: everyday speech, loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Is there one proper English? The big arguments» 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 (careful writing), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 speech	case
2	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 speech	amod
3	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	obl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 speech	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 's	expl
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 used	aux
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 's	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 used	aux:pass
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 used	advmod
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 plurals	case
12	plurals	plural	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 used	obl
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 's	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 's	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 's	expl
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 loads	cop
17	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 plurals	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 people	case
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 loads	nmod
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 people	punct
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 loads	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 uses	punct
23	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 writing	amod
24	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 uses	nsubj
25	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 used	parataxis
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 are	punct
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 are	expl
28	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 uses	ccomp
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 are	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive			everyday speech	with plurals; often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»
2	is a in a quote	present		loads		of people	tree rules
3	use	present	careful writing				tree rules
4	be in a quote	present	careful writing not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:020-is-there-one-proper-english.lesson:16.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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