Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 12

Conjunctions join: «I was tired but I kept going.» Proper nouns name one particular person, place or thing, so they need a capital: Ellie must write London, not london.

Who acts: Conjunctions, ate, Proper nouns, nouns, Ellie · What happens: join, be, keep, go, name, need · To what, where: one particular person, capital, London · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Word classes: the jobs words do» 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 (Conjunctions, ate, Proper nouns, nouns), 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	Conjunctions	conjunction	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 join	nsubj
2	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 tired	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 tired	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tired	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 join	ccomp
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	conj
11	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 nouns	punct
14	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nouns	amod
15	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 name	nsubj
16	name	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 going	xcomp
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 person	nummod
18	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 person	amod
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 name	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 place	punct
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 person	conj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 thing	cc
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 person	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 need	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 need	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 need	nsubj
27	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 name	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 capital	det
29	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 need	obj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 write	punct
31	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 write	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 write	aux
33	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 join	parataxis
34	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 write	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 london	punct
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 london	advmod
37	london	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 London	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 join	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	join	present	Conjunctions			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is in a quote	past	ate		tired property	tree rules
3	keep in a quote	past	ate			tree rules
4	go in a quote	gerund	ate not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	name	present	Proper nouns	one particular person and place or thing		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme
6	need	present	nouns = noun	a capital		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot capital=Theme
7	write	must	Ellie	London and london		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent london=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.

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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