Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas, sentence 9
A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place, day or month, like Mia, London or Monday, and starts with a capital letter; a common noun is a general word like girl or city.
Who acts: proper noun, common noun · What happens: be, start · To what, where: name, general word
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 (proper noun, common noun), 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 | 3 noun | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noun | amod |
| 3 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 person | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 9 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 person | amod |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 place | punct |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 person | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 day | punct |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 person | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 month | cc |
| 16 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mia | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 Mia | case |
| 19 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 person | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 London | punct |
| 21 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mia | conj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 Monday | cc |
| 23 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mia | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 starts | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 starts | cc |
| 26 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 letter | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 letter | det |
| 29 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 letter | compound |
| 30 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 starts | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 word | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 noun | det |
| 33 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 noun | amod |
| 34 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 word | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 word | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 word | det |
| 37 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 word | amod |
| 38 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | conj |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 girl | case |
| 40 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 word | nmod |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 city | cc |
| 42 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 girl | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | 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 | a proper noun | the name and a general word | of a particular person like Mia and London or Monday and place and day or month | tree rules | |||
| 2 | start | present | a proper noun not said here | with a capital letter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a common noun | a general word | like girl or city | 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:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:9.
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 ×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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