Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 20
A proper noun names one particular person, place or thing and starts with a capital letter: Ellie, London, Tuesday.
Who acts: proper noun · What happens: name, start · To what, where: one particular 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 (proper 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 | 3 noun | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noun | amod |
| 3 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 names | nsubj |
| 4 | names | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 person | nummod |
| 6 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 names | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 place | punct |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 person | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 thing | cc |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 person | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 starts | cc |
| 13 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 names | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 letter | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 letter | det |
| 16 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 letter | compound |
| 17 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 starts | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ellie | punct |
| 19 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 letter | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 London | punct |
| 21 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ellie | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Tuesday | punct |
| 23 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ellie | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 proper noun | one particular person and place or thing | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | present | a proper noun not said here | with a capital letter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality |
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:20.
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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