Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas, sentence 8

A concrete noun names something you can see or touch, like a mat; an abstract noun names an idea or feeling, like happiness, fear or friendship.

Who acts: concrete noun, you, abstract noun · What happens: name, see, touch · To what, where: something, idea

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 (concrete noun, you, abstract noun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

pos

teacher

kept the draft

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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