Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 22
An adjective describes a noun: a big dog, a red hat, a friendly girl.
Who acts: adjective · What happens: describe · To what, where: noun
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 (adjective), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 adjective | det |
| 2 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | nsubj |
| 3 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 noun | det |
| 5 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 dog | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dog | amod |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noun | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hat | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hat | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hat | amod |
| 13 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dog | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 girl | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dog | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 describes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | a adjective | a noun | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent noun=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.
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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): R5-strong ×2, 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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