Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 19
A noun names a person, place, thing or idea: girl, Leeds, table, happiness.
Who acts: noun · What happens: name · To what, where: person
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 (noun), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 noun | det |
| 2 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 names | nsubj |
| 3 | names | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 names | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 person | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thing | punct |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 person | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 idea | cc |
| 11 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 person | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 girl | punct |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 person | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Leeds | punct |
| 15 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 table | punct |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 happiness | punct |
| 19 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 names | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present | a noun | a person and place and thing or idea | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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:english:027-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do.lesson:19.
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. 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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