Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 21
A verb is a doing or being word: run, eat, is, think.
Who acts: verb · What happens: do, be, run, eat · To what, where: doing word
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 (verb), 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 verb | det |
| 2 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 word | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 word | amod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 being | cc |
| 7 | being | be | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 doing | conj |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 run | punct |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 word | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 run | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 run | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 think | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 word | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 word | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | be | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a verb | a doing word | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | eat | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | present | think property | 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:21.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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