Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 2
A word's class depends on its job in THIS sentence.
Who acts: class · What happens: depend, job
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 (class), 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 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 class | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 word | case |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | nsubj |
| 5 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 job | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 job | nmod:poss |
| 8 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sentence | case |
| 10 | THIS | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 sentence | det |
| 11 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | a word's class | in this sentence; on class's job | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on job=Theme | ||||
| 2 | job | class | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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): no change. 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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