Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 13

Little words like my, your and his before a noun are determiners in school grammar (possessive determiners), while mine and yours standing alone are pronouns.

Who acts: Little words, mine · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: determiners, school grammar, pronouns

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 (Little words, mine), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 determiners	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 my	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 words	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 your	punct
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 my	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 his	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 my	conj
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 noun	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 noun	det
11	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 determiners	obl
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 determiners	cop
13	determiners	determiner	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 grammar	case
15	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grammar	compound
16	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 determiners	nmod
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 determiners	punct
18	possessive	possessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 determiners	amod
19	determiners	determiner	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grammar	appos
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 determiners	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pronouns	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 pronouns	mark
23	mine	mine	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 pronouns	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 yours	cc
25	yours	yours	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mine	conj
26	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 mine	acl
27	alone	alone	ADV	_	26 standing	advmod
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 pronouns	cop
29	pronouns	pronoun	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 determiners	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 determiners	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Little words	determiners and pronouns	school grammar	before a noun		tree rules
2	stand	gerund					alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	mine	pronouns				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:english:027-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do.lesson:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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