Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas, sentence 15

In careful writing people use "fewer" with countable nouns and "less" with uncountable ones, though in casual speech many say "less" for both.

Who acts: people, many · What happens: use, say · To what, where: fewer, careful writing, casual speech · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» of the language 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 (people, many), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 writing	case
2	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 writing	amod
3	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obl
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 fewer	punct
7	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 use	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 fewer	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 nouns	case
10	countable	countable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nouns	amod
11	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ones	cc
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 less	punct
14	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 ones	advmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 less	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 ones	case
17	uncountable	uncountable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ones	amod
18	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nouns	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 say	mark
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 speech	case
22	casual	casual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 speech	amod
23	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obl
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 say	nsubj
25	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	advcl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 less	punct
27	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 say	ccomp
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 less	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 both	case
30	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	27 less	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	people	fewer		careful writing		with countable nouns and uncountable ones	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	many			casual speech			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in speech=Manner

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:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:15.

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): R6-punct-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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