Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 8
Quickly is the odd one out: it describes how something is done, so it's an adverb.
Who acts: adjective · What happens: be, describe · To what, where: odd one, adverb
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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 one | compound:prt |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 describes | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 describes | nsubj |
| 9 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 done | advmod |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux:pass |
| 13 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 describes | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 adverb | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 adverb | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 adverb | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 adverb | cop |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 adverb | det |
| 19 | adverb | adverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 describes | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the odd one | quickly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | describe | present | adjective | the odd one not said here | done property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | adjective | a adverb | 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:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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