Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 23
An adverb describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb: she ran quickly, very tall, super fun.
Who acts: adverb, Arvo · What happens: describe, run · To what, where: verb
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 (adverb, Arvo), 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 adverb | det |
| 2 | adverb | adverb | 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 verb | det |
| 5 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 adjective | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 adjective | det |
| 8 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 verb | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 adverb | cc |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 adverb | det |
| 11 | adverb | adverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 verb | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 describes | parataxis |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tall | punct |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 tall | advmod |
| 18 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 describes | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fun | punct |
| 20 | super | super | ADV | _ | 21 fun | advmod |
| 21 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tall | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 describes | 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 | describe | present | a adverb | a verb and a adjective or another adverb | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent verb=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Arvo | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:23.
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, 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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