Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 26
A determiner comes before a noun to show which or how many: the, a, an, this, some, two, my, your.
Who acts: determiner · What happens: come, show · 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 (determiner), 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 determiner | det |
| 2 | determiner | determiner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 noun | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 noun | det |
| 6 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 show | mark |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comes | advcl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 show | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 many | cc |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 which | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 many | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 many | dep |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 this | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 the | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 this | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 the | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 an | punct |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 the | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 two | punct |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 the | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 some | punct |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 the | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 my | punct |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 the | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 your | punct |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 the | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | a determiner | a noun | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before noun=Location | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | a determiner not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
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:26.
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